The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Luxembourg
This page contains a list of the greatest Luxembourger Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Luxembourg. This makes Luxembourg the birth place of the 26th most number of Geographers behind Portugal, and Czechia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Luxembourger Geographers of all time. This list of famous Luxembourger Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Curt von François (1852 - 1931)
With an HPI of 49.16, Curt von François is the most famous Luxembourger Geographer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Curt Karl Bruno von François (2 October 1852 – 28 December 1931) was a German geographer, cartographer, Schutztruppe officer and commissioner of the imperial colonial army of the German Empire, particularly in German South West Africa (today's Namibia) where he was responsible on behalf of Kaiser for the foundation of the city of Windhoek on 18 October 1890 and the harbor of Swakopmund on 4 August 1892.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Luxembourger geographers born between 1852 and 1852. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Luxembourger geographers include Curt von François.
