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Albrecht Penck

1858 - 1945

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Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Penck is the 30th most popular geographer (up from 31st in 2019), the 1,432nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,710th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Albrecht Penck ranks 30 out of 86. Before him are Fra Mauro, James Lovelock, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Sebastian Münster, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Johann Georg Gmelin. After him are Abraham Cresques, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Willem Blaeu, Nicolas Sanson, Jovan Cvijić, and Jodocus Hondius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Albrecht Penck ranks 43. Before him are Carl Auer von Welsbach, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Oldfield Thomas, William Henry Pickering, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and Saad Zaghloul. After him are Wolfgang Kapp, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Fernand Khnopff, Mélanie Bonis, Remy de Gourmont, and Gaetano Mosca. Among people deceased in 1945, Albrecht Penck ranks 99. Before him are Josef Čapek, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Fritz Klein, Hans Kammler, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, and Else Lasker-Schüler. After him are Roza Shanina, Bernhard Rust, Georg Kaiser, Walter Bradford Cannon, Philipp Bouhler, and Eduard Bloch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Penck ranks 1,432 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Bernhardus Varenius (1622), Fritz Honka (1935), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), and Toni Kroos (1990). After him are Rudolf Brandt (1909), Franz von Hipper (1863), Brigitte Helm (1906), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Jakob Wassermann (1873), and Wilhelm Beer (1797).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Albrecht Penck ranks 6. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Carl Ritter (1779), Sebastian Münster (1488), and Johann Georg Gmelin (1709). After him are Alfred Hettner (1859), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Adolf Stieler (1775), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Richard Andree (1835).

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