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Anton Friedrich Büsching

1724 - 1793

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Anton Friedrich Büsching (27 September 1724 – 28 May 1793) was a German geographer, historian, educator and theologian. His Erdbeschreibung ("Earth description") was the first geographical work of any scientific merit. He also did significant work on behalf of education. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Friedrich Büsching is the 61st most popular geographer (up from 68th in 2019), the 3,789th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,158th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 61 out of 86. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, and Johannes Gabriel Granö. After him are Vaclav Smil, Torsten Hägerstrand, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Richard Hartshorne, Doreen Massey, and Ellsworth Huntington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 26. Before him are Claude Balbastre, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, John Smeaton, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Gottfried Heinrich Bach. After him are Johann Julius Walbaum, Dai Zhen, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Ji Yun, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, and Georges-Louis Le Sage. Among people deceased in 1793, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 42. Before him are Armand Louis de Gontaut, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Karl Philipp Moritz, William Hudson, Leopold Hofmann, and Charles de Bonchamps. After him are Carl Gustaf Pilo, Roger Sherman, Katsukawa Shunshō, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Peter Perez Burdett, and Johann August Ephraim Goeze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 3,791 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Prey (1929), Gerhard Marcks (1889), Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim (1198), Corinna Harfouch (1954), and Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1891). After him are Carl Diem (1882), Iwan Bloch (1872), Erich Bey (1898), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), and Benjamin List (1968).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 11. Before him are Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), and Adolf Stieler (1775). After him are Richard Andree (1835), and Peter Schenk the Elder (1660).

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