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Adolf Stieler

1775 - 1836

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Adolf Stieler (26 February 1775 – 13 March 1836) was a German cartographer and lawyer who worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institute in Gotha. Although he studied law and would serve in government for his entire career, he maintained an interest in cartography and published many famous works. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Stieler has received more than 46,989 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Adolf Stieler is the 70th most popular geographer (down from 60th in 2019), the 4,336th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,766th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Adolf Stieler ranks 70 out of 86. Before him are John Walter Gregory, Vaclav Smil, Nicolas de Fer, Ellen Churchill Semple, Anton Friedrich Büsching, and Curt von François. After him are Doreen Massey, Carl O. Sauer, Ellsworth Huntington, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Aaron Arrowsmith, and Richard Andree.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Adolf Stieler ranks 43. Before him are François Marius Granet, Antonio Bertoloni, Constance Mayer, Thomas Girtin, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, and Walter Savage Landor. After him are Anna Harrison, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Baji Rao II, Pauline Auzou, William Thompson, and Francisco Ramón Vicuña. Among people deceased in 1836, Adolf Stieler ranks 44. Before him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, William B. Travis, Edward Turner Bennett, Miguel Barragán, William Elford Leach, and Stephen F. Austin. After him are Marc-Antoine Parseval, Edward Livingston, Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Charles Wilkins, Emily Donelson, and Dániel Berzsenyi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Stieler ranks 4,336 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Badelt (1967), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Thomas Linke (1969), Joseph Höffner (1906), Hermann Osthoff (1847), and Robert Havemann (1910). After him are Felix Dahn (1834), Marcus Goldman (1821), Sabine Meyer (1959), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Adolf Stieler ranks 12. Before him are Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724). After him are Richard Andree (1835).

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