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Johann Gottlieb Georgi

1729 - 1802

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Johann Gottlieb Georgi (31 December 1729 – 27 October 1802) was a German-Russian botanist, naturalist and geographer. A native of Pomerania, Georgi accompanied both Johan Peter Falk and Peter Simon Pallas on their respective journeys through Siberia. During 1770-1774 he travelled on its behalf to Astrakhan, the Urals, Bashkir, the Barabinsk steppe, the Kolyvanskoe silver mines (to assess the ore content), Altai, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Baikal, and Dauren. In 1783 he became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Georgi is the 55th most popular geographer (up from 56th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from Poland (up from 736th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 55 out of 86. Before him are Jan Janssonius, Claes Jansz. Visscher, Hans Meyer, Inō Tadataka, August Heinrich Petermann, and Emmanuel de Martonne. After him are Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, and Anton Friedrich Büsching.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 23. Before him are Christian Gottlob Heyne, Thomas Percy, Gaétan Vestris, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Anders Chydenius, and Michael von Melas. After him are Giuseppe Parini, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Michael Denis, Pierre André de Suffren, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, and Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. Among people deceased in 1802, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 20. Before him are Jurij Vega, Prince Henry of Prussia, Giuseppe Sarti, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, August Batsch, and George Romney. After him are Joseph Duplessis, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Joseph Ducreux, Thomas Girtin, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, and Daniel Morgan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 716 out of 1,694. Before him are Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Miliza Korjus (1905), Aleksander Gierymski (1850), Wojciech Gerson (1831), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), and Samuel Eilenberg (1913). After him are Leo Baeck (1873), Ernst Degner (1931), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), Uwe Johnson (1934), and Nathan Alterman (1910).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Poland

Among geographers born in Poland, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 2. Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833).

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