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Richard Hartshorne

1899 - 1992

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Richard Hartshorne (; December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography. He is known in particular for his methodological work The Nature of Geography, published in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Hartshorne is the 65th most popular geographer (down from 50th in 2019), the 5,833rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,039th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Richard Hartshorne ranks 65 out of 86. Before him are Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Vaclav Smil, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani. After him are Doreen Massey, Ellsworth Huntington, John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, Aaron Arrowsmith, and Nicolas de Fer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Richard Hartshorne ranks 188. Before him are Dora Gerson, Vera Gaze, Jón Leifs, Max Petitpierre, Gerald Moore, and Vince Gallagher. After him are Alfred Blalock, Marcel Arland, Roger Vitrac, Armas Toivonen, Gerhard von Schwerin, and Elizabeth Bowen. Among people deceased in 1992, Richard Hartshorne ranks 159. Before him are Irakli Abashidze, Claude Aveline, Marsha P. Johnson, Wilfried Dietrich, David Miller, and Machiko Hasegawa. After him are Piotr Jaroszewicz, Jean Aerts, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Karl Deutsch, Vakhtang Chabukiani, and Joan Mitchell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Hartshorne ranks 5,833 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlie Mariano (1923), Adam Darius (1930), Catherine Hicks (1951), Doug McClure (1935), Charlene Tilton (1958), and Katharine McPhee (1984). After him are John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Alfred Blalock (1899), Ted Post (1918), Harold Sakata (1920), Cyrus McCormick (1809), and Ian Ziering (1964).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United States

Among geographers born in United States, Richard Hartshorne ranks 3. Before him are William Morris Davis (1850), and Marie Tharp (1920). After him are Ellsworth Huntington (1876), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Carl O. Sauer (1889), and Henry Schoolcraft (1793).

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