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Siegfried Marcus

1831 - 1898

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Siegfried Samuel Marcus (German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈmaʁkʊs]; 18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German engineer and inventor, born in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He made the first petrol-powered vehicle, a handcart, in 1870, while living in Vienna, Austria. Marcus created a second vehicle in 1888/1889, but it is not known if he used it, and he did not develop it further. Marcus' vehicles had no influence on the development of cars, and his experimental vehicles were regarded by some journalists as "impractical". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Siegfried Marcus is the 147th most popular inventor (up from 166th in 2019), the 1,721st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,044th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Siegfried Marcus ranks 147 out of 426. Before him are Taiichi Ohno, Louis Le Prince, Cornelis Drebbel, John Kay, Robert Stirling, and Peter Cooper. After him are Richard Jordan Gatling, Robert Cailliau, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Henri Giffard, Mary Anderson, and Peter Henlein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Siegfried Marcus ranks 33. Before him are Peter Tait, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Constantin Meunier, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Isabella Bird. After him are Ludvig Nobel, Nikolai Ge, Othniel Charles Marsh, Paul Durand-Ruel, Maurice de Hirsch, and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1898, Siegfried Marcus ranks 30. Before him are Edward Burne-Jones, Zachris Topelius, Georges Rodenbach, Princess Francisca of Brazil, George Müller, and Georg Ebers. After him are Tuone Udaina, Constance Lloyd, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Prince Gong, Antoine François Marmontel, and Carl Zeller.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 1,721 out of 7,253. Before him are Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Franz Hössler (1906), Hans Staden (1525), Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774), and Georg Ebers (1837). After him are Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), Albert Lortzing (1801), Prince William of Baden (1829), Klaus Fischer (1949), and Cerdic of Wessex (467).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Siegfried Marcus ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), and Hugo Schmeisser (1884). After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), Henrich Focke (1890), and Artur Fischer (1919).

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