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Theobald Boehm

1794 - 1881

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Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system"). He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer. The fingering system he devised has also been adapted to other instruments, such as the oboe and the clarinet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theobald Boehm is the 120th most popular inventor (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,323rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,284th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Inventor.

Theobald Boehm was a German flute maker who is most famous for inventing the Boehm system flute in 1847.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Theobald Boehm ranks 120 out of 426. Before him are Josiah Warren, Clément Ader, Jacque Fresco, Robert Noyce, James Hargreaves, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are Franz Reichelt, Samuel Crompton, Hans von Ohain, Nikolai Kardashev, Paul Otlet, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr..

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Among people born in 1794, Theobald Boehm ranks 7. Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna, René Lesson, Elias Magnus Fries, Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz. After him are Wilhelm Müller, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, William Whewell, and Léon Cogniet. Among people deceased in 1881, Theobald Boehm ranks 19. Before him are Auguste Mariette, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Nikolai Rubinstein, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Nikolay Pirogov. After him are Hermann Lotze, George W. De Long, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Eduard Heine, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theobald Boehm ranks 1,323 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Kumm (1909), Heinrich Füger (1751), Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698), Sophia Eleonore of Saxony (1609), Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577), and Theodor Storm (1817). After him are Barbara Blomberg (1527), Gert Fröbe (1913), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Hermann Lotze (1817), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), and Nena (1960).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Theobald Boehm ranks 14. Before him are Karl Drais (1785), Konrad Zuse (1910), Adam Opel (1837), Emile Berliner (1851), Joseph Pilates (1883), and Johann Philipp Reis (1834). After him are Hans von Ohain (1911), Alfred Krupp (1812), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), and Peter Henlein (1479).

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