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Margarete Steiff

1847 - 1909

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Margarete Steiff (24 July 1847 – 9 May 1909) was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals. Born in Giengen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Margarete contracted polio as a child, leaving her with both legs paralyzed and pain in her right arm. After training as a seamstress, she was able to raise enough money to purchase a sewing machine by teaching people to play the zither. She began making clothes, eventually opening her own store in 1877. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margarete Steiff is the 44th most popular designer (up from 47th in 2019), the 2,705th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,975th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Designer.

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Margarete Steiff ranks 44 out of 104. Before her are Andokides painter, Salvatore Ferragamo, Giambattista Bodoni, Mariano Fortuny, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., and Alexander McQueen. After her are Luigi Colani, Otl Aicher, Eiko Ishioka, Betsy Ross, Adrian Frutiger, and John Baskerville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Margarete Steiff ranks 47. Before her are Josip Belušić, John Bates Clark, Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, Frits Thaulow, Bertha Wegmann, and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. After her are Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Augusta Holmès, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Millicent Fawcett, Karl Wittgenstein, and Julia Lermontova. Among people deceased in 1909, Margarete Steiff ranks 42. Before her are Harry Seeley, Abdul Karim, Friedrich Martens, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Walther Ritz, and Joshua Slocum. After her are Karl Krumbacher, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Zhang Zhidong, John Millington Synge, Mieczysław Karłowicz, and Charles-Louis Philippe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Margarete Steiff ranks 2,706 out of 7,253. Before her are Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (1852), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp (1569), Claude Dornier (1884), Herman I of Baden (1040), and Master Francke (1380). After her are Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770), Alfred Meyer (1891), Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1676), and Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Margarete Steiff ranks 6. Before her are Hugo Boss (1885), Michael Thonet (1796), Georg Elser (1903), Dieter Rams (1932), and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914). After her are Luigi Colani (1928), Otl Aicher (1922), Anton Koberger (1440), Erik Spiekermann (1947), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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