1858 - 1945
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 45,232 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Albrecht Penck is the 31st most popular geographer (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,588th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,323rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Geographer.
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Among geographers, Albrecht Penck ranks 31 out of 67. Before him are Fra Mauro, William Morris Davis, Sebastian Münster, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Marinus of Tyre, and Nicolas Sanson. After him are Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Jodocus Hondius, Vincenzo Coronelli, Willem Blaeu, Alfred Hettner, and Artemidorus Ephesius.
1385 - 1459
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 25
1850 - 1934
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 26
1488 - 1552
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 27
1203 - 1283
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 28
100 - 130
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 29
1600 - 1667
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 30
1858 - 1945
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 31
1100 - 1061
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 32
1563 - 1612
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 33
1650 - 1718
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 34
1571 - 1638
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 35
1859 - 1941
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 36
150 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 37
Among people born in 1858, Albrecht Penck ranks 46. Before him are Gaetano Mosca, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Saad Zaghloul, Jan Toorop, Pandita Ramabai, and Saitō Makoto. After him are Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Remy de Gourmont, Wolfgang Kapp, Ye Wanyong, Roland Bonaparte, and Ethel Smyth. Among people deceased in 1945, Albrecht Penck ranks 118. Before him are Takijirō Ōnishi, Leonid Pasternak, Wolfgang Lüth, Walther Hewel, Mário de Andrade, and Bogdan Filov. After him are Robert Desnos, Paul Pelliot, Otto Kittel, Else Lasker-Schüler, Le Pétomane, and Fritz Klingenberg.
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 40
1858 - 1929
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 41
1858 - 1927
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 42
1858 - 1928
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 43
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 44
1858 - 1936
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 45
1858 - 1945
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 46
1858 - 1940
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 47
1858 - 1915
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 48
1858 - 1922
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 49
1858 - 1926
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 50
1858 - 1924
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 51
1858 - 1944
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 52
1891 - 1945
HPI: 57.81
Rank: 112
1862 - 1945
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 113
1913 - 1945
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 114
1904 - 1945
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 115
1893 - 1945
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 116
1883 - 1945
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 117
1858 - 1945
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 118
1900 - 1945
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 119
1878 - 1945
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 120
1917 - 1945
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 121
1869 - 1945
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 122
1857 - 1945
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 123
1912 - 1945
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 124
Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Penck ranks 1,588 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Berger (1873), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), Heinrich Schwarz (1906), Günter Guillaume (1927), and Oskar Lafontaine (1943). After him are Thomas Müller (1989), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Viktor Brack (1904), Mike Nichols (1931), and Wilhelm Backhaus (1884).
1873 - 1941
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 1,582
1902 - 1953
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 1,583
1722 - 1780
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 1,584
1906 - 1947
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 1,585
1927 - 1995
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 1,586
1943 - Present
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 1,587
1858 - 1945
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,588
1989 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,589
1325 - 1398
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,590
1893 - 1958
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 1,591
1904 - 1948
HPI: 57.52
Rank: 1,592
1931 - 2014
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 1,593
1884 - 1969
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 1,594
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), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724).
1769 - 1859
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 1
1779 - 1859
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 2
1470 - 1520
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 3
1488 - 1552
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 4
1858 - 1945
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 5
1859 - 1941
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 6
1709 - 1755
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 7
1858 - 1929
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 8
1775 - 1836
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 9
1724 - 1793
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 10