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Alfred Hettner

1859 - 1941

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Alfred Hettner (6 August 1859, in Dresden – 31 August 1941, in Heidelberg) was a German geographer. Hettner is known for his concept of chorology, the study of places and regions, a concept that influenced both Carl O. Sauer and Richard Hartshorne. Apart from the geography of Europe, his fieldwork concentrated mainly on that of Colombia, Chile and Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Hettner is the 45th most popular geographer (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,458th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,105th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Alfred Hettner ranks 45 out of 86. Before him are Otto Nordenskjöld, Conrad Malte-Brun, Marie Tharp, Marinus of Tyre, Erich von Drygalski, and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. After him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Jehuda Cresques, Jan Janssonius, Claes Jansz. Visscher, and Hans Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alfred Hettner ranks 56. Before him are Radko Dimitriev, Léon Duguit, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Walther von Lüttwitz, Constantine VI of Constantinople, and Charles Diehl. After him are Kenneth Grahame, Ernesto Cesàro, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Fanny Bullock Workman, Karl von Stürgkh, and Adolf Bertram. Among people deceased in 1941, Alfred Hettner ranks 76. Before him are Hanns Kerrl, Amy Johnson, Arkady Gaidar, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Amrita Sher-Gil, and Ivan Panfilov. After him are Friedrich Akel, Maximilien Luce, J. Stuart Blackton, Joachim Schepke, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, and Alexandros Koryzis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Hettner ranks 2,459 out of 7,253. Before him are Agnes of Hesse (1527), Dietrich Kraiss (1889), Wilhelm Marschall (1886), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Theodor Lessing (1872), and Ferdinand von Bredow (1884). After him are Johannes Fabricius (1587), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), Christiane Vulpius (1765), Wilhelm, Duke of Urach (1810), Jurij Brězan (1916), and Princess Ernestine of Saxe-Weimar (1740).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Alfred Hettner ranks 7. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Carl Ritter (1779), Sebastian Münster (1488), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), and Albrecht Penck (1858). After him are Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Adolf Stieler (1775), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Richard Andree (1835), and Peter Schenk the Elder (1660).

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