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Alfred Hettner

1859 - 1941

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Alfred Hettner (6 August 1859, in Dresden – 31 August 1941, in Heidelberg) was a German geographer. His parents were art historian Hermann Theodor Hettner and Marie von Stockmar. His maternal grandfather was Christian Friedrich, Baron Stockmar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Hettner has received more than 49,862 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alfred Hettner is the 38th most popular geographer (down from 36th in 2019), the 2,105th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,801st in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Geographer.

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  • 56.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Alfred Hettner ranks 38 out of 86. Before him are Marinus of Tyre, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Artemidorus Ephesius, Jovan Cvijić, Vincenzo Coronelli, and Jodocus Hondius. After him are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Alfred Hettner ranks 48. Before him are Thibaw Min, Feng Guozhang, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Léon Duguit, Georg Alexander Pick, and Gustave Kahn. After him are Nahum Sokolow, Walther von Lüttwitz, Sen Katayama, Kenneth Grahame, Havelock Ellis, and Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1941, Alfred Hettner ranks 71. Before him are Hans Berger, Lou Gehrig, Issai Schur, May Ziade, Christian Sinding, and Ivan Panfilov. After him are Guillermo Kahlo, Hanns Kerrl, Anandyn Amar, Walter Ruttmann, Joachim Schepke, and Maximilien Luce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Hettner ranks 2,105 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Paschen (1865), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Bodo Illgner (1967), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin (1891), and Johann Trollmann (1907). After him are Karl Baedeker (1801), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Gotthold Eisenstein (1823), Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), and Matthias Jabs (1955).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Alfred Hettner ranks 6. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Carl Ritter (1779), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Sebastian Münster (1488), and Albrecht Penck (1858). After him are 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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