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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 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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  • 57.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Germany

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).

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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), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724).

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