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Albrecht Penck

1858 - 1945

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Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht Penck has received more than 48,476 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Albrecht Penck is the 31st most popular geographer, the 1,710th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,588th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Geographer.

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  • 48k

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  • 57.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Albrecht Penck ranks 31 out of 86. Before him are Abraham Cresques, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Fra Mauro, William Morris Davis, Nicolas Sanson, and Willem Blaeu. After him are Marinus of Tyre, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Artemidorus Ephesius, Jovan Cvijić, Vincenzo Coronelli, and Jodocus Hondius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Albrecht Penck ranks 49. Before him are Alois Riegl, Wolfgang Kapp, Fernand Khnopff, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Bonar Law, and Oldfield Thomas. After him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Mélanie Bonis, Caran d'Ache, Roland Bonaparte, Ethel Smyth, and Pandita Ramabai. Among people deceased in 1945, Albrecht Penck ranks 124. Before him are Rudolf Lange, Roza Shanina, Le Pétomane, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, and Robert Desnos. After him are Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Paul Pelliot, Kitaro Nishida, Constanze Manziarly, Hajime Sugiyama, and Charles Fabry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Penck ranks 1,710 out of 7,253. Before him are Joschka Fischer (1948), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Gisela of Swabia (990), Hans Berger (1873), Christian Thielemann (1959), and Uri Avnery (1923). After him are Maurice de Hirsch (1831), Michael Stifel (1487), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Berthold (1180), Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721), and William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Albrecht Penck ranks 5. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Carl Ritter (1779), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), and Sebastian Münster (1488). After him are Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Adolf Stieler (1775).

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