GEOGRAPHER

Hans Meyer

1858 - 1929

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Hans Heinrich Josef Meyer (22 March 1858 – 5 July 1929) was a German geographer from Hildburghausen, who was the son of publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer (1826–1909). Hans Meyer is credited with being the first European to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,895 m (19,341 ft) in modern day Moshi District of Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Meyer has received more than 17,860 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hans Meyer is the 54th most popular geographer (up from 57th in 2019), the 3,479th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,747th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Geographer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Hans Meyer ranks 54 out of 86. Before her are Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, and Pedro Reinel. After her are Yves Lacoste, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, Claes Jansz. Visscher, and August Heinrich Petermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Hans Meyer ranks 85. Before her are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Cipriano Castro, Maximilian Njegovan, Sébastien Faure, Richard Bergh, and Wilhelm Fliess. After her are Edmond Aman-Jean, José Miguel Gómez, Helen Churchill Candee, Léon Serpollet, Agnes Baden-Powell, and Constance Lloyd. Among people deceased in 1929, Hans Meyer ranks 75. Before her are Raoul Pictet, Lilli Lehmann, Segundo de Chomón, Nasreddine Dinet, Frederick Abberline, and Gunnar Heiberg. After her are Archibald Reiss, Charles F. Brush, Pierre Fatou, Leonard Hobhouse, Manuel Díaz, and Amandus Adamson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Meyer ranks 3,479 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg (1615), Albrecht Brandi (1914), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), Daniel Steibelt (1765), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809). After her are Siegfried Rauch (1932), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Franz Tunder (1614), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia (1462).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Hans Meyer ranks 8. Before her are Carl Ritter (1779), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), and Johann Georg Gmelin (1709). After her are August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Richard Andree (1835).

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