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Karl Benz

1844 - 1929

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Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛnts] ; born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. His company Benz & Cie., based in Mannheim, was the world's first automobile plant and largest of its day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Benz is the 6th most popular inventor (up from 8th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 46th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Inventor.

Karl Benz is most famous for inventing the first car that was powered by an internal combustion engine.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Karl Benz ranks 6 out of 426. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, and James Watt. After him are Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Louis Braille, and Charles Babbage.

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Among people born in 1844, Karl Benz ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Nietzsche. After him are Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, Ilya Repin, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Menelik II. Among people deceased in 1929, Karl Benz ranks 1. After him are Georges Clemenceau, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Ferdinand Foch, Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Charles Cooley, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Sergei Diaghilev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Benz ranks 23 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph Goebbels (1897), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), and Richard Wagner (1813). After him are Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Frederick the Great (1712), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Friedrich Engels (1820).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Benz ranks 2. Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394). After him are Nikolaus Otto (1832), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Hans Lippershey (1570), Werner von Siemens (1816), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Karl Drais (1785), Konrad Zuse (1910), Adam Opel (1837), Emile Berliner (1851), and Joseph Pilates (1883).

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