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Also Known As Aloys Senefelder • Johann Nepomuk Franz Alois Senefelder
Born November 6, 1771 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died February 26, 1834 (aged 62) • Munich • Germany

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Senefelder, detail of a lithograph by S. Freeman, after a portrait by L. Quaglio, 1818
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