September 18, 1831: The Birth of an Automotive Pioneer
Automotive pioneer Siegfried Samuel Marcus was born in the town of Malchin in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which is now part of the Federal Republic of Germany. By the mid-1850s, Marcus had moved to Vienna and worked in that city as a manufacturer of scientific instruments until his death in 1898. (Vienna was the capital of the Austrian Empire between 1804 and 1867 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918.)
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