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Born August 30, 1844 • Karlsruhe
Died August 9, 1904 (aged 59) • Germany
Notable Works “Anthropogeographie”
Subjects Of Study Lebensraum

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German ethnologist
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Albrecht Penck
geographer
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Sebastian Münster
German scholar
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German anthropologist
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