Siegfried Marcus

Siegfried Marcus
Siegfried Marcus 1831-1898
Born	18 September 1831 Malchin, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Died	1 July 1898 (1898-08) (aged 66) Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Nationality	German
Occupation	Engineer
Engineering career
Projects	the first petrol powered vehicle
Significant advance	Automobile

Siegfried Samuel Marcus (German: [ˈziːkfʁiːt ˈmaʁkʊs]; 18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German inventor. Marcus was born in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He made the first petrol-powered vehicle in 1864, while living in Vienna, Austria.^[1]