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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 18,346 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Friedrich Büsching is the 62nd most popular geographer (down from 54th in 2019), the 3,897th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,408th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Geographer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 62 out of 67. Before him are Guillaume Delisle, Hans Meyer, Vaclav Smil, Ellen Churchill Semple, Adolf Stieler, and Torsten Hägerstrand. After him are Doreen Massey, John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, Ellsworth Huntington, Carl O. Sauer, and Yuly Shokalsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 27. Before him are Claude Balbastre, John Smeaton, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Dai Zhen, 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 41. Before him are Karl Philipp Moritz, Charles de Bonchamps, Leopold Hofmann, Katsukawa Shunshō, Timur Shah Durrani, and Roger Sherman. After him are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Peter Perez Burdett, William Robertson, and Gilbert White.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 3,897 out of 6,142. Before him are Klaus von Dohnanyi (1928), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Ellen Preis (1912), and Johann Beckmann (1739). After him are Leopold Andrian (1875), Heinz Kwiatkowski (1926), Frederic Lewy (1885), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), and Oskar von Miller (1855).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Anton Friedrich Büsching ranks 10. Before him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), and Adolf Stieler (1775).

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