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Paul Vidal de La Blache

1845 - 1918

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Paul Vidal de La Blache (French pronunciation: [pɔl vidal də la blaʃ], Pézenas, Hérault, 22 January 1845 – Tamaris-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 5 April 1918) was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Vidal de La Blache is the 19th most popular geographer (down from 18th in 2019), the 1,042nd most popular biography from France (down from 950th in 2019) and the most popular French Geographer.

Paul Vidal de la Blache is most famous for his work in geography and cartography. He was the first to create a map of France that showed the country's natural regions.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Paul Vidal de La Blache ranks 19 out of 86. Before him are Wladimir Köppen, George Everest, Ya'qubi, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Ibn Khordadbeh, and Pomponius Mela. After him are Ibn Jubayr, Al-Bakri, William Morris Davis, Élisée Reclus, Fra Mauro, and James Lovelock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Paul Vidal de La Blache ranks 18. Before him are Carl Spitteler, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, George Reid, Nikola Pašić, Abai Qunanbaiuly, and John Sparrow David Thompson. After him are Edmond James de Rothschild, Ion Ivanovici, Leopold Auer, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Laura Marx, and George Darwin. Among people deceased in 1918, Paul Vidal de La Blache ranks 37. Before him are Ferdinand Hodler, Edmond Rostand, Arrigo Boito, Fanny Kaplan, Hermann Cohen, and Lili Boulanger. After him are Paul von Rennenkampf, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Frank Wedekind, Andrew Dickson White, Eusebi Güell, and Julius Wellhausen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Vidal de La Blache ranks 1,042 out of 6,770. Before him are Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), Albert Roussel (1869), Guillaume Brune (1763), Sigebert II (602), and Magdalena of France (1443). After him are Inessa Armand (1874), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (1644), Michel Rolle (1652), and Marcel Dupré (1886).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In France

Among geographers born in France, Paul Vidal de La Blache ranks 1. After him are Élisée Reclus (1830), Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697), Nicolas Sanson (1600), Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), Guillaume Delisle (1675), Nicolas de Fer (1646), and Guillaume Grandidier (1873).

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