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Also Known As Carl Ortwin Sauer
Born December 24, 1889 • Missouri
Died July 18, 1975 (aged 85) • Berkeley • California
Subjects Of Study cultural geography
Edward Robinson
American scholar
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Isaiah Bowman
American geographer and educator
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
Ellen Churchill Semple
American geographer
Jedidiah Morse
American geographer
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist