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Torsten Hägerstrand

1916 - 2004

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Torsten Hägerstrand (October 11, 1916, in Moheda – May 3, 2004, in Lund) was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography. A native and resident of Sweden, Hägerstrand was a professor (later professor emeritus) of geography at Lund University, where he received his doctorate in 1953. His doctoral research was on cultural diffusion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Torsten Hägerstrand is the 63rd most popular geographer (down from 61st in 2019), the 565th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 563rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 63 out of 86. Before him are Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Anton Friedrich Büsching, and Vaclav Smil. After him are Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Richard Hartshorne, Doreen Massey, Ellsworth Huntington, John Walter Gregory, and Curt von François.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 162. Before him are Anthony Dawson, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Pruden, Carlo Rustichelli, Chiang Fang-liang, and Chinmayananda Saraswati. After him are Budd Boetticher, Betty Taylor, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Tinus Osendarp, Keenan Wynn, and Halet Çambel. Among people deceased in 2004, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 172. Before him are Howard Keel, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carlo Rustichelli, Chiang Fang-liang, Gennadi Strekalov, and Ryszard Kukliński. After him are Christer Pettersson, Albert Brülls, John Randolph, Evelyn Mase, Angus Ogilvy, and Mildred McDaniel.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 565 out of 1,879. Before him are Nils Johan Andersson (1821), Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626), Reino Börjesson (1929), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Bernhard Britz (1906), and Anders Dahl (1751). After him are Lina Sandell (1832), Sven Wollter (1934), Mårten Eskil Winge (1825), Erik Adlerz (1892), Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718), and Christer Pettersson (1947).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Sweden

Among geographers born in Sweden, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 2. Before him are Otto Nordenskjöld (1869).

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