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Carl O. Sauer

1889 - 1975

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Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957. He has been called "the dean of American historical geography" and he was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl O. Sauer has received more than 214,470 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl O. Sauer is the 67th most popular geographer (down from 60th in 2019), the 6,904th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,246th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Geographer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Carl O. Sauer ranks 67 out of 67. Before him are Torsten Hägerstrand, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Doreen Massey, John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, and Ellsworth Huntington. After him are Yuly Shokalsky, Herman Moll, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Arnold Henry Guyot, John Speed, and Thomas Griffith Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Carl O. Sauer ranks 205. Before him are Virgilio Mantegazza, Nezihe Muhiddin, Teresa de la Parra, Hjalmar Andersson, Thomas Hart Benton, and Paul Deman. After him are Emma Asson, Charles Reidpath, K. B. Hedgewar, Matilde Hidalgo, Beulah Bondi, and Stafford Cripps. Among people deceased in 1975, Carl O. Sauer ranks 188. Before him are Oliver Nelson, Benjamin Jekhowsky, Hermann Paul Müller, Arthur Bliss, Argemiro, and Thomas Hart Benton. After him are Antonio Vojak, Mary Ure, August Dvorak, Charles Reidpath, Niginho, and Carl Silfverstrand.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl O. Sauer ranks 6,904 out of 18,182. Before him are James Hall (1811), Dan Rather (1931), Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806), Tina Weymouth (1950), John Holt (1923), and Paul Williams (1940). After him are Harve Presnell (1933), Sara Paretsky (1947), Chris Paul (1985), James L. Elliot (1943), Bruce Kirby (1925), and Jim Root (1971).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United States

Among geographers born in United States, Carl O. Sauer ranks 6. Before him are William Morris Davis (1850), Marie Tharp (1920), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), and Ellsworth Huntington (1876). After him are Henry Schoolcraft (1793).

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