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August Heinrich Petermann

1822 - 1878

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Augustus Heinrich Petermann (18 April 1822 – 25 September 1878) was a German cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Heinrich Petermann has received more than 62,030 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. August Heinrich Petermann is the 60th most popular geographer, the 3,868th most popular biography from Germany and the 9th most popular German Geographer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, August Heinrich Petermann ranks 60 out of 86. Before him are Hans Meyer, Yves Lacoste, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, and Claes Jansz. Visscher. After him are Torsten Hägerstrand, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Peter Schenk the Elder, John Walter Gregory, Vaclav Smil, and Nicolas de Fer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, August Heinrich Petermann ranks 57. Before him are Bernhard Hammer, Dmitry Grigorovich, Luis Sáenz Peña, Frederick Law Olmsted, Alexander Mackenzie, and Mathew Brady. After him are Willem Roelofs, Peter Michal Bohúň, Victor Massé, Wilhelm Bauer, Nikolay Ilminsky, and John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. Among people deceased in 1878, August Heinrich Petermann ranks 45. Before him are George Cruikshank, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Crawford Long, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Josip Runjanin, and Eugène Belgrand. After him are Dimitrios Voulgaris, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Fabre Geffrard, Kikuchi Yōsai, and Joaquín Mosquera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Heinrich Petermann ranks 3,868 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer (1900), Stefan Reuter (1966), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Karin Büttner-Janz (1952), and Oscar Hertwig (1849). After him are Herluf Bidstrup (1912), Peer Steinbrück (1947), Dora Gerson (1899), Günther Schwägermann (1915), Michael Verhoeven (1938), and Tatjana Patitz (1966).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, August Heinrich Petermann ranks 9. Before him are Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), and Hans Meyer (1858). After him are Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Richard Andree (1835).

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