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Max Skladanowsky

1863 - 1939

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Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display a moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public debut of the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe in Paris on 28 December 1895. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Skladanowsky is the 204th most popular inventor (up from 219th in 2019), the 2,610th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,756th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Max Skladanowsky ranks 204 out of 426. Before him are J. Presper Eckert, Georges Claude, Eunice Newton Foote, Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, and Josip Belušić. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Royal Rife, James Dyson, Édouard Branly, and Charles Xavier Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Max Skladanowsky ranks 67. Before him are Paul Héroult, Paul Walden, Abdul Karim, Qasim Amin, Eero Järnefelt, and Felix Blumenfeld. After him are Joseph Caillaux, Yevhen Petrushevych, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Fyodor Sologub, Franz Schalk, and Louis Couperus. Among people deceased in 1939, Max Skladanowsky ranks 67. Before him are Eugen Weidmann, Gustavs Zemgals, Benjamin Tucker, Kyōka Izumi, Bruno Liljefors, and Isaak Brodsky. After him are Henri Le Sidaner, Archibald Leitch, Grigori Sokolnikov, Fyodor Raskolnikov, S. S. Van Dine, and Konstantin Somov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Skladanowsky ranks 2,611 out of 7,253. Before him are Eugen Ritter von Schobert (1883), Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (1390), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1563), Wilhelm Worringer (1881), and George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784). After him are Carl, Duke of Württemberg (1936), Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224), Karl Hein (1908), Alexander Gode (1906), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), and Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz (1691).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Max Skladanowsky ranks 29. Before him are Henrich Focke (1890), Artur Fischer (1919), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), and Johann Christoph Denner (1655). After him are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Oskar Barnack (1879), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and Eugen Langen (1833).

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