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Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 December 1816, 1816
- Died
- 6 December 1892, 1892
- Place of birth
- Lenthe
- Place of death
- Charlottenburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Siemens
- Spouse
- Mathilde Siemens
- Child
- Arnold von Siemens, Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, Anna Zanders, Carl Friedrich von Siemens, Käthe Pietschker
- Sibling
- Hans Siemens, Ferdinand Siemens, Friedrich Siemens, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, Walter Siemens, Otto Siemens, Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
- Field of work
- electrical resistance
- Occupation
- entrepreneur, military engineer, inventor, engineer, politician, railway engineer
- Position held
- Member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- German Reich
- Awards
- Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University, Commander's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph, Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown of Prussia, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Order of Saint Michael, Pour le Mérite, Order of the Red Eagle, Order of the Crown, Order of Franz Joseph, Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion and the Sun, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Order of St. Vladimir
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- educated at
- Katharineum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Russian Academy of Sciences, VDI – The Association of German Engineers, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Urania, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Institution of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers
- member of political party
- German Progress Party
- name in native language
- Werner von Siemens
- place of burial
- Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf
- residence
- Charlottenburg
- topic's main category
- Category:Werner von Siemens
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