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Anton Friedrich Büsching

1724 - 1793

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Anton Friedrich Büsching (27 September 1724 – 28 May 1793) was a German geographer, historian, educator and theologian. His Erdbeschreibung ("Earth description") was the first geographical work of any scientific merit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Friedrich Büsching has received more than 19,848 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Anton Friedrich Büsching is the 68th most popular geographer (down from 62nd in 2019), the 4,158th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,886th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 68 out of 86. Before him are Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Peter Schenk the Elder, John Walter Gregory, Vaclav Smil, Nicolas de Fer, and Ellen Churchill Semple. After him are Curt von François, Adolf Stieler, Doreen Massey, Carl O. Sauer, Ellsworth Huntington, and Johannes Gabriel Granö.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 30. Before him are John Michell, Dai Zhen, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ji Yun, Johann Julius Walbaum, and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood. After him are Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Jane Colden. Among people deceased in 1793, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 44. Before him are Karl Philipp Moritz, John Michell, Leopold Hofmann, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Katsukawa Shunshō, and Carl Gustaf Pilo. After him are Roger Sherman, Timur Shah Durrani, William Robertson, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Gilbert White, and Peter Perez Burdett.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 4,158 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (1913), Otto Jahn (1813), Gerhard Marcks (1889), Carl Sternheim (1878), Johannes Brenz (1499), and Ludwig Bieberbach (1886). After him are Thomas Reiter (1958), Princess Margarita of Baden (1932), Klaus Wunder (1950), Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), Ruth Leuwerik (1924), and Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 11. Before him are Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), and Peter Schenk the Elder (1660). After him are Adolf Stieler (1775), and Richard Andree (1835).

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