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Wilhelm Bauer

1822 - 1875

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Wilhelm Bauer (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈbaʊɐ]; 23 December 1822 – 20 June 1875) was a German marine engineer and inventor who built several hand-powered submarines. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Bauer is the 309th most popular inventor (down from 301st in 2019), the 4,297th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,178th in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Wilhelm Bauer ranks 309 out of 426. Before him are George Graham, Bernard Lown, Ivan Kulibin, Marion Donovan, Walter Clopton Wingfield, and Štefan Banič. After him are Paul von Jankó, Wilson Greatbatch, Abraham Darby I, Whitcomb L. Judson, Rostislav Alexeyev, and Kenjiro Takayanagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Wilhelm Bauer ranks 65. Before him are Bernhard Hammer, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Willem Roelofs, Nikolay Ilminsky, and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha. After him are Dmitry Grigorovich, Adolph Strecker, Janko Kráľ, Julius von Haast, Peter Michal Bohúň, and Thrasyvoulos Zaimis. Among people deceased in 1875, Wilhelm Bauer ranks 64. Before him are Charles Grandison Finney, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, William Sterndale Bennett, and Fyodor Bruni. After him are Aristeidis Moraitinis, Virginie Ancelot, Giovanni Luppis, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, George Finlay, and Joseph Othmar Rauscher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Bauer ranks 4,299 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Keller (1842), Hugo Strauß (1907), Martina Gedeck (1961), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Marc Forster (1969), and Emil Julius Gumbel (1891). After him are Hilde Schrader (1910), Stefan Kuntz (1962), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Gotthard Handrick (1908), and Robert Jungk (1913).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Wilhelm Bauer ranks 38. Before him are Oskar Barnack (1879), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ricardo Wolf (1887), Eugen Langen (1833), Adolf Martens (1850), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789). After him are Walter Bruch (1908), Didi Senft (1952), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Heinrich Gerber (1832), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), and Andy Bechtolsheim (1955).

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