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Oskar Barnack

1879 - 1936

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Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Barnack is the 223rd most popular inventor (down from 197th in 2019), the 2,898th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,425th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Oskar Barnack ranks 223 out of 426. Before him are Narcís Monturiol, David Edward Hughes, Shigeo Shingo, Jethro Tull, Traian Vuia, and Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After him are Melvil Dewey, Elihu Thomson, Hubert Cecil Booth, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Lars Magnus Ericsson, and Laurens Hammond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Oskar Barnack ranks 100. Before him are Jacob Gade, Vanessa Bell, Edwin Montagu, Adolf Wiklund, Carlos Chagas, and Patrick Pearse. After him are Clyde Cessna, Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Bernhard Kellermann, Adaviye Efendiyeva, Yevgenia Bosch, and Petar Živković. Among people deceased in 1936, Oskar Barnack ranks 98. Before him are Dezső Kosztolányi, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Nahum Sokolow, Josep Sunyol, Alexander Guchkov, and Louise Bryant. After him are Oscar Wisting, Gustave Kahn, Svetozar Pribićević, Walther Wever, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, and Jean Patou.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 2,900 out of 7,253. Before him are Julius Klaproth (1783), Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1773), Ludwig Kübler (1889), Gertrude of Süpplingenburg (1115), Günther Lützow (1912), and Ernst Hartert (1859). After him are Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1865), Alexander von Linsingen (1850), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (1532), Christian Thielemann (1959), and Eduard, Duke of Anhalt (1861).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Oskar Barnack ranks 32. Before him are Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823). After him are Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Eugen Langen (1833), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Wilhelm Bauer (1822).

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