The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Serbia
This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 19th most number of Geographers behind Lebanon, and Afghanistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Geographers of all time. This list of famous Serbian Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jovan Cvijić (1865 - 1927)
With an HPI of 57.24, Jovan Cvijić is the most famous Serbian Geographer. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Jovan Cvijić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Цвијић, pronounced [jǒʋan tsʋǐːjitɕ]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade. Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia. He began his scientific career as a geographer and geologist, and continued his activity as a human geographer and sociologist. He initiated the Serbian Ethnographic Collection (Srpski etnološki zbornik), within which 102 books were published, representing a unique scientific and interdisciplinary project on a global scale. Jovan Cvijić received numerous awards and medals, both domestically and internationally, for his work.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Serbian geographers born between 1865 and 1865. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Serbian geographers include Jovan Cvijić.
