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Adam Olearius

1603 - 1671

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Adam Olearius (born Adam Ölschläger or Oehlschlaeger, 24 September 1599 – 22 February 1671) was a German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Olearius has received more than 80,691 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Olearius is the 130th most popular explorer (up from 133rd in 2019), the 1,477th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,575th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Explorer.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adam Olearius ranks 130 out of 498. Before him are Jean Chardin, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Salomon August Andrée, Afanasy Nikitin, Isabella Bird, and Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. After him are Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, João Vaz Corte-Real, and Gil Eanes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1603, Adam Olearius ranks 5. Before him are Abel Tasman, Joseph of Cupertino, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, and Lennart Torstensson. After him are Aert van der Neer, Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Yerofey Khabarov, Francesco Furini, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Michel Le Tellier, and Marco Uccellini. Among people deceased in 1671, Adam Olearius ranks 5. Before him are Stenka Razin, François Vatel, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and Anne Hyde. After him are Fran Krsto Frankopan, Petar Zrinski, Sébastien Bourdon, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, Roche Braziliano, Yerofey Khabarov, and Antonio Barberini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Olearius ranks 1,477 out of 7,253. Before him are Peter Minuit (1589), Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570), Melitta Bentz (1873), Walter Warlimont (1894), Christian Wulff (1959), and Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482). After him are Hans Vaihinger (1852), August Oetker (1862), Robert Siodmak (1900), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903), Albert Bierstadt (1830), and Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Adam Olearius ranks 6. Before him are Martin Behaim (1459), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Heinrich Barth (1821), and Hans Staden (1525). After him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505).

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