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Hans Meyer

1858 - 1929

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Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (22 March 1858 – 5 July 1929) was a German geographer from Hildburghausen, who was the son of publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909). Hans Meyer is credited with being the first European to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 m (19,341 ft) in modern day Moshi District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro has three peaks: Shira, 3,962 m (12,999 ft); Mawenzi, 5,149 m (16,893 ft); and Kibo, whose summit was reached by Meyer in 1889. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Meyer is the 51st most popular geographer (up from 54th in 2019), the 3,209th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,479th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Hans Meyer ranks 51 out of 86. Before her are Alfred Hettner, Yi-Fu Tuan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Jehuda Cresques, Jan Janssonius, and Claes Jansz. Visscher. After her are Inō Tadataka, August Heinrich Petermann, Emmanuel de Martonne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, and Yves Lacoste.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Hans Meyer ranks 81. Before her are Gustaf Kossinna, Stjepan Sarkotić, Maximilian Njegovan, Cipriano Castro, Agnes Baden-Powell, and José Miguel Gómez. After her are Richard Bergh, Sébastien Faure, Henry Watson Fowler, P. J. Kennedy, Emma Calvé, and Carl Swartz. Among people deceased in 1929, Hans Meyer ranks 75. Before her are Léon Delacroix, Millicent Fawcett, Vasil Radoslavov, Nasreddine Dinet, Tsuda Umeko, and Sergei Nilus. After her are Charles Fox Parham, Nurkhon Yuldashkhojayeva, P. J. Kennedy, Ernest Monis, Segundo de Chomón, and Emilie Snethlage.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Meyer ranks 3,211 out of 7,253. Before her are Emil Warburg (1846), Caspar Netscher (1639), Theodor Meynert (1833), Anna of Hesse (1529), Felix von Luckner (1881), and Karl Rapp (1882). After her are Karl Neukirch (1864), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710), Gustav Lombard (1895), and Berthold (1180).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Hans Meyer ranks 8. Before her are Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Carl Ritter (1779), Sebastian Münster (1488), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Albrecht Penck (1858), and Alfred Hettner (1859). After her are August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Adolf Stieler (1775), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Richard Andree (1835), and Peter Schenk the Elder (1660).

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