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Wladimir Köppen

1846 - 1940

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Wladimir Petrovich Köppen ( KUR-pən; German: [ˈkœpn̩]; Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Кёппен, romanized: Vladímir Petróvich Kyoppen, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈkʲɵp(ː)ʲɪn]; 25 September 1846 – 22 June 1940) was a Russian–German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. After studies in St. Petersburg, he spent the bulk of his life and professional career in Germany and Austria. The Köppen climate classification system, named after a proposal he first made in 1884, with some modifications, is still widely used. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wladimir Köppen is the 13th most popular geographer (down from 12th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Russia (up from 180th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Geographer.

Wladimir Köppen is most famous for his work on climate classification and climatology.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Wladimir Köppen ranks 13 out of 86. Before him are Pausanias, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, Carl Ritter, David Harvey, and Ferdinand von Richthofen. After him are George Everest, Ya'qubi, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pomponius Mela, and Paul Vidal de La Blache.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Wladimir Köppen ranks 10. Before him are Peter Carl Fabergé, Wilhelm Maybach, Buffalo Bill, Comte de Lautréamont, George Westinghouse, and Edmondo De Amicis. After him are Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Edward Charles Pickering, Gaston Maspero, and Émile Gallé. Among people deceased in 1940, Wladimir Köppen ranks 21. Before him are Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, John Buchan, Peter Behrens, Isaac Babel, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg. After him are Spyridon Louis, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, and Lluís Companys.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 176 out of 3,761. Before him are El Lissitzky (1890), False Dmitry I (1581), Eduard Limonov (1943), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), and Gala Dalí (1894). After him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Ilya Frank (1908), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Igor Tamm (1895), and Anna Netrebko (1971).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Russia

Among geographers born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 1. After him are Erich von Drygalski (1865), Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), and Yuly Shokalsky (1856).

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