INVENTOR

Karl Drais

1785 - 1851

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Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785 – 10 December 1851) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He is regarded as "the father" and as the inventor of the bicycle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Drais is the 48th most popular inventor (up from 50th in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from Germany (down from 411th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Inventor.

Karl Drais is most famous for inventing the first bicycle.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Karl Drais ranks 48 out of 426. Before him are Ismail al-Jazari, Adolphe Sax, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Robert Fulton, and Steve Wozniak. After him are George Westinghouse, Douglas Engelbart, Konrad Zuse, Hiram Maxim, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Richard Trevithick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Karl Drais ranks 7. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Thomas De Quincey, and Alessandro Manzoni. After him are Lin Zexu, William Jackson Hooker, Claude-Louis Navier, Bettina von Arnim, Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, and Shah Shujah Durrani. Among people deceased in 1851, Karl Drais ranks 9. Before him are Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and James Fenimore Cooper. After him are Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Gaspare Spontini, Manuel Godoy, and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Drais ranks 440 out of 7,253. Before him are Pina Bausch (1940), Hans Krebs (1898), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), Ernst Bloch (1885), Michael Haneke (1942), and Frederick I of Sweden (1676). After him are Conradin (1252), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), Adam of Bremen (1100), and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Karl Drais ranks 8. Before him are Karl Benz (1844), Nikolaus Otto (1832), Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Hans Lippershey (1570), Werner von Siemens (1816), and Wilhelm Maybach (1846). After him are Konrad Zuse (1910), Adam Opel (1837), Emile Berliner (1851), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), and Theobald Boehm (1794).

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