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Hermann Wissmann

1853 - 1905

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Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Wissmann is the 326th most popular explorer (down from 318th in 2019), the 3,717th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,695th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hermann Wissmann ranks 326 out of 498. Before him are Juan de Fuca, Helmer Hanssen, Henricus Martellus Germanus, João Fernandes Lavrador, Semyon Chelyuskin, and Theodor Kotschy. After him are Pedro Tafur, Nain Singh, Félix de Azara, Pyotr Chikhachyov, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, and Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Hermann Wissmann ranks 66. Before him are Sarada Devi, Agvan Dorzhiev, Evgraf Fedorov, Karl von Einem, Hans von Koessler, and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies. After him are Howard Pyle, Florentino Ameghino, Marc-Émile Ruchet, John Wesley Hardin, Jaroslav Vrchlický, and Mato Kósyk. Among people deceased in 1905, Hermann Wissmann ranks 59. Before him are Tippu Tip, John Henninger Reagan, Debendranath Tagore, John Rogan, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, and René Goblet. After him are Charles Renard, Émile Oustalet, Célestine Galli-Marié, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, and Konstantin Savitsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 3,719 out of 7,253. Before him are Anno II (1010), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (1897), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899), and Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1681). After him are Rudolf Belling (1886), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842), Leroy Sané (1996), Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1559), Brigitte Hamann (1940), and Erich Weinert (1890).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 17. Before him are Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Julius Klaproth (1783), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), and Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401). After him are Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Carl Peters (1856), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), and Theodor von Heuglin (1824).

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