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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 77,893 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolf Lüderitz is the 279th most popular explorer (up from 293rd in 2019), the 3,173rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,176th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Explorer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 279 out of 405. Before him are Ivan Papanin, Francis Crozier, Semyon Chelyuskin, Alexander Dalrymple, Eduard von Toll, and Francis Younghusband. After him are Wilfred Thesiger, Yuri Lisyansky, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Edward S. Curtis, and Francisco Moreno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 47. Before him are Adrien Proust, Ludovic Halévy, Carl Lange, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Étienne Laspeyres, and Serafino Vannutelli. After him are Piet Joubert, Miguel Grau Seminario, Paul Kummer, Adolph Frank, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, and Albert Niemann. Among people deceased in 1886, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 30. Before him are Jules Jamin, José Hernández, Marco Minghetti, Eugène Isabey, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, and Theodor von Oppolzer. After him are Charles Lwanga, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, Richard Dadd, Leopold Zunz, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 3,173 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741), Pavle Jurišić Šturm (1848), Joseph Keilberth (1908), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Daniel Steibelt (1765), and Theodor Körner (1791). After him are Tanita Tikaram (1969), Jackson Browne (1948), Kurt Schmitt (1886), Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Lehmann (1936), and Paul Leni (1885).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Adolf Lüderitz ranks 17. Before him are Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), and Ludwig Leichhardt (1813). After him are Albert von Le Coq (1860), Otto Finsch (1839), Hermann Wissmann (1853), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), and Johannes Rebmann (1820).

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