The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 22nd most number of Geographers behind Japan and Yemen.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Geographers of all time. This list of famous Danish Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Conrad Malte-Brun (1775 - 1826)
With an HPI of 50.86, Conrad Malte-Brun is the most famous Danish Geographer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Conrad Malte-Brun (French: [kɔ̃ʁad malt bʁœ̃]; born Malthe Conrad Bruun; 12 August 1775 – 14 December 1826), sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer. Today he is perhaps best remembered for coining the name for the geographic region Oceania (French Océanie) around 1812, he also coined the name Indo-China.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1775 and 1775. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Conrad Malte-Brun.
