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Adolf Lüderitz

1834 - 1886

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Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (16 July 1834 – end of October 1886) was a German merchant and the founder of German South West Africa, Imperial Germany's first colony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Lüderitz has received more than 86,191 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adolf Lüderitz is the 281st most popular explorer (down from 278th in 2019), the 3,210th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,170th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 281 out of 498. Before him are Karl Weyprecht, Nikolai Spathari, João da Nova, Richard Chancellor, João Fernandes Lavrador, and Annie Londonderry. After him are Charles Wilkes, Ada Blackjack, Wilfred Thesiger, Otto Finsch, Freya Stark, and Aleksei Chirikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 43. Before him are Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Infanta Amalia of Spain, Ewald Hering, Hugo Schiff, Kamehameha IV, and Piet Joubert. After him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Albert Niemann, Adrien Proust, Paul Kummer, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, and Serafino Vannutelli. Among people deceased in 1886, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 29. Before him are José Hernández, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Jules Jamin, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, and Eugène Isabey. After him are Theodor von Oppolzer, Charles Lwanga, Ivan Aksakov, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Paul Bert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 3,210 out of 7,253. Before him are Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), Eugen Langen (1833), Walter Heitler (1904), John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665), and August Karl von Goeben (1816). After him are Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Dieter Hoeneß (1953), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), and Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 15. Before him are John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Carl Peters (1856), and Karl Weyprecht (1838). After him are Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), and Hermann Wissmann (1853).

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