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Friedrich Ratzel

1844 - 1904

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Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum ("living space") in the sense that the National Socialists later would. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Ratzel is the 1,314th most popular politician (down from 902nd in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Germany (down from 251st in 2019) and the 93rd most popular German Politician.

Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnologist who is most famous for his work in the field of ethnology, specifically in regards to the study of race.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Friedrich Ratzel ranks 1,314 out of 19,576. Before him are Šuppiluliuma I, Masinissa, Süleyman Demirel, Constantine IV, Igor of Kiev, and Isaac II Angelos. After him are Trebonianus Gallus, Milovan Đilas, Wilhelm Frick, Chongzhen Emperor, Ajatashatru, and Gaius Gracchus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Friedrich Ratzel ranks 17. Before him are Ludwig Boltzmann, Menelik II, Umberto I of Italy, Alexandra of Denmark, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, and Peter I of Serbia. After him are Mary Cassatt, Pablo de Sarasate, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Ismail Qemali, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Muhammad Ahmad. Among people deceased in 1904, Friedrich Ratzel ranks 9. Before him are Theodor Herzl, Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. After him are Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Eadweard Muybridge, Gabriel Tarde, Henri Fantin-Latour, and Abai Qunanbaiuly.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Ratzel ranks 329 out of 7,253. Before him are Katharina von Bora (1498), Richard Dedekind (1831), Carl Bosch (1874), Erich Hartmann (1922), Carl Zeiss (1816), and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781). After him are Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Wilhelm Frick (1877), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Gustav Stresemann (1878), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), and James Franck (1882).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Friedrich Ratzel ranks 93. Before him are Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Baldur von Schirach (1907), and Anton Drexler (1884). After him are Wilhelm Frick (1877), Gustav Stresemann (1878), Carol I of Romania (1839), Henry the Lion (1129), Georgy Lvov (1861), and Theodor Heuss (1884).

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