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Johannes Gabriel Granö

1882 - 1956

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Johannes Gabriel Granö (14 March 1882 – 23 February 1956) was a Finnish geographer, chiefly remembered as a professor of three universities and an explorer of Siberia and Mongolia. He is also noted for his pioneering studies on landscape geography, and his book Pure Geography. Granö was a professor in universities of Tartu, Helsinki, and Turku. Granö studied in Helsinki University, starting 1900 in botany but changing his major subject to geography. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Gabriel Granö is the 60th most popular geographer (up from 74th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Finland (up from 303rd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 60 out of 86. Before him are Emmanuel de Martonne, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, and Adolf Stieler. After him are Anton Friedrich Büsching, Vaclav Smil, Torsten Hägerstrand, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Richard Hartshorne, and Doreen Massey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 155. Before him are Louis Pergaud, Holland Smith, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Nicolae Titulescu, Louis St. Laurent, and Jenő Fuchs. After him are Elisabeth Abegg, Péter Tóth, Benjamin Jones, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Henri Anspach, and Henri Fabre. Among people deceased in 1956, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 125. Before him are Aino Kallas, Corrado Alvaro, Ágnes Esterházy, John Geiger, Touria Chaoui, and Truxtun Hare. After him are E. A. Dupont, Helmer Hanssen, Johann Radon, Paul Renner, Navvab Safavi, and Tommy Dorsey.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 166 out of 751. Before him are Paavo Berglund (1929), Mauno Pekkala (1890), Heikki Savolainen (1907), Ville Valo (1976), Juha Mieto (1949), and Marita Lindahl (1938). After him are Leevi Madetoja (1887), Marcus Grönholm (1968), Gunnar Nordström (1881), Heikki A. Alikoski (1912), Paavo Talvela (1897), and Tuomas Holopainen (1976).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Finland

Among geographers born in Finland, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 1. 

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