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Born August 6, 1859 • Dresden
Died August 31, 1941 (aged 82) • Heidelberg • Germany
Subjects Of Study geography • regional geography
Paul Vidal de La Blache
Paul Vidal de La Blache
French geographer
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter
German geographer
Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
Behaim, Martin
Martin Behaim
Portuguese geographer and navigator
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Bernhardus Varenius
German geographer
Sebastian Münster, detail from an engraving, c. 1550.
Sebastian Münster
German scholar
Philipp Clüver
German geographer
Anton Friedrich Büsching
German geographer
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian