The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 16th most number of Geographers behind Libya and Iraq.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Geographers of all time. This list of famous Austrian Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 - 1574)
With an HPI of 60.01, Georg Joachim Rheticus is the most famous Austrian Geographer. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus (/ˈrɛtɪkəs/; 16 February 1514 – 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1514 and 1514. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Georg Joachim Rheticus.
