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Adolf Stieler

1775 - 1836

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Adolf Stieler (26 February 1775 – 13 March 1836) was a German cartographer and lawyer who worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institute in Gotha. Although he studied law and would serve in government for his entire career, he maintained an interest in cartography and published many famous works. His Handatlas was the leading German world atlas until the middle of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Stieler is the 59th most popular geographer (up from 70th in 2019), the 3,549th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,336th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Adolf Stieler ranks 59 out of 86. Before him are August Heinrich Petermann, Emmanuel de Martonne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, and Pedro Reinel. After him are Johannes Gabriel Granö, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Vaclav Smil, Torsten Hägerstrand, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, and Richard Hartshorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Adolf Stieler ranks 36. Before him are Antonio Bertoloni, Daniel O'Connell, Stefan Bogoridi, Charles Lamb, François Marius Granet, and Carlo Rossi. After him are Thomas Girtin, Juan Martín Díez, Anna Harrison, Bhimsen Thapa, William Thompson, and Walter Savage Landor. Among people deceased in 1836, Adolf Stieler ranks 39. Before him are Heinrich Schrader, Betsy Ross, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, Andrey Razumovsky, and Orest Kiprensky. After him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Marc-Antoine Parseval, Emily Donelson, John Pond, and Miguel Barragán.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Stieler ranks 3,551 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Ballhaus (1935), Karl von Einem (1853), Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau (1602), Karl-Josef Rauber (1934), Max August Zorn (1906), and Helmut Walcha (1907). After him are Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), Adolf Martens (1850), Lilli Lehmann (1848), Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1748), and Franz Roth (1946).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Adolf Stieler ranks 10. Before him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Hans Meyer (1858), and August Heinrich Petermann (1822). After him are Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Richard Andree (1835), and Peter Schenk the Elder (1660).

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