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Hermann Wissmann

1853 - 1905

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Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Wissmann has received more than 65,386 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Wissmann is the 318th most popular explorer (down from 302nd in 2019), the 3,695th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,459th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hermann Wissmann ranks 318 out of 498. Before him are Chris McCandless, Francisco de Ulloa, Ivan Papanin, Pyotr Kozlov, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Nathaniel Palmer. After him are Helge Ingstad, Dmitry Laptev, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Tafur, William Clark, and Bento de Góis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Hermann Wissmann ranks 64. Before him are Adolf Furtwängler, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Karl von Einem, Hans von Koessler, Howard Pyle, and John Wesley Hardin. After him are Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Jules Lemaître, Florentino Ameghino, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Agvan Dorzhiev, and Heinrich Lammasch. Among people deceased in 1905, Hermann Wissmann ranks 57. Before him are Debendranath Tagore, Henrik Sjöberg, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Konstantin Savitsky, Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, and Rudolf von Alt. After him are Charles Renard, Alexander, Prince of Lippe, John Hay, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Charles Yerkes, and Hermann Usener.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 3,695 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (1498), Heinrich Albert (1604), Konrad Wolf (1925), Ludwig Kaas (1881), Friedrich Wilhelm, Count Brandenburg (1792), and A. R. Penck (1939). After him are Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), Walter Noddack (1893), Anita Augspurg (1857), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Herman Sörgel (1885), and Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (1726).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 21. Before him are Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831). After him are Albert von Le Coq (1860), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Carl Koldewey (1837), Karl Mauch (1837), and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810).

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