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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 59,259 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hermann Wissmann is the 303rd most popular explorer (down from 294th in 2019), the 3,463rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,177th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hermann Wissmann ranks 303 out of 405Before him are Albert von Le Coq, Knut Haugland, Thekla Resvoll, Theodor Kotschy, Sverre Hassel, and Otto Finsch. After him are Irina Solovyova, Karl Maximovich, Friedrich Welwitsch, Humphrey Gilbert, Kristian Prestrud, and Louis Jolliet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Hermann Wissmann ranks 66Before him are Gabriel Hanotaux, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Karl von Einem, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Heinrich Lammasch, and Florentino Ameghino. After him are Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen, Evgraf Fedorov, Dmitry Sipyagin, Pierre Marie, José Santos Zelaya, and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies. Among people deceased in 1905, Hermann Wissmann ranks 54Before him are Theodore Thomas, Amalie Skram, Rudolf von Alt, Konstantin Savitsky, Charles Renard, and Alexander, Prince of Lippe. After him are John Hay, Henry Irving, Kārlis Baumanis, Charles Yerkes, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, and Célestine Galli-Marié.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 3,463 out of 6,142Before him are Robert Hübner (1948), Rolf Hoppe (1930), Frank Schwalba-Hoth (1952), Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Heymann Steinthal (1823), and Carl Blechen (1798). After him are Herbert Norkus (1916), August Leopold Crelle (1780), Walter Braunfels (1882), Jean Cabanis (1816), Horst Blankenburg (1947), and Karl Hofer (1878).

Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Hermann Wissmann ranks 20Before him are Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Albert von Le Coq (1860), and Otto Finsch (1839). After him are Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Carl Koldewey (1837), and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810).