GEOGRAPHER

Curt von François

1852 - 1931

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Curt Karl Bruno von François (2 October 1852 – 28 December 1931) was a German geographer, cartographer, Schutztruppe officer and commissioner of the imperial colonial army of the German Empire, particularly in German South West Africa (today's Namibia) where he was responsible on behalf of Kaiser for the foundation of the city of Windhoek on 18 October 1890 and the harbor of Swakopmund on 4 August 1892. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curt von François has received more than 61,425 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Curt von François is the 69th most popular geographer (down from 65th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Luxembourg (up from 41st in 2019) and the most popular Luxembourger Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 61k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Curt von François by language

Over the past year Curt von François has had the most page views in the with 8,802 views, followed by German (7,459), and French (1,734). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (52.94%), Arabic (50.78%), and Luxembourgish (30.33%)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Curt von François ranks 69 out of 86. Before him are Peter Schenk the Elder, John Walter Gregory, Vaclav Smil, Nicolas de Fer, Ellen Churchill Semple, and Anton Friedrich Büsching. After him are Adolf Stieler, Doreen Massey, Carl O. Sauer, Ellsworth Huntington, Johannes Gabriel Granö, and Aaron Arrowsmith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Curt von François ranks 91. Before him are Carl Chun, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, James Dwight, and Felix Graf von Bothmer. After him are Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, Lin Shu, Fulgence Bienvenüe, and Theodore Robinson. Among people deceased in 1931, Curt von François ranks 107. Before him are Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Oskar Minkowski, Ida B. Wells, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, José Figueroa Alcorta, and Victor Bérard. After him are David Starr Jordan, Aleksander Skrzyński, Elsa Laula Renberg, Jetze Doorman, Kinue Hitomi, and Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau.

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In Luxembourg

Among people born in Luxembourg, Curt von François ranks 40 out of 95. Before him are Pierre Frieden (1892), Paul Eyschen (1841), Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg (1925), William Justin Kroll (1889), Pierre Dupong (1885), and Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein (1957). After him are Anne Fontaine (1959), Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787), Princess Alix of Luxembourg (1929), Prince Jean of Luxembourg (1957), Nicolas Schmit (1953), and Princess Sophie of Luxembourg (1902).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Luxembourg

Among geographers born in Luxembourg, Curt von François ranks 1. 

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