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Jan Janssonius

1588 - 1664

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Johannes Janssonius (1588, in Arnhem – buried July 11, 1664, in Amsterdam) (born Jan Janszoon, in English also Jan Jansson) was a Dutch cartographer and publisher who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Janssonius has received more than 72,345 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jan Janssonius is the 47th most popular geographer (up from 53rd in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 510th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Geographer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

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  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Jan Janssonius ranks 47 out of 86. Before him are Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani. After him are Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, and Pedro Reinel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1588, Jan Janssonius ranks 11. Before him are Henri, Prince of Condé, Marina Mniszech, Isaac Beeckman, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Robert Filmer. After him are Pierre Séguier, Ole Worm, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Margherita Aldobrandini, Claudius Salmasius, and Johann von Aldringen. Among people deceased in 1664, Jan Janssonius ranks 12. Before him are Ivan Vyhovsky, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Maria Cunitz, Henry II, Duke of Guise, and William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz. After him are Salomon de Bray, Michiel Sweerts, Guru Har Krishan, Élisabeth de Bourbon, Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, and Cornelis Pietersz Bega.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Janssonius ranks 417 out of 1,646. Before him are Herman Willem Daendels (1762), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Ronald de Boer (1970), Caspar van Wittel (1653), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), and Jordi Cruyff (1974). After him are Co Adriaanse (1947), George Knobel (1922), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Matthias Stom (1600), and Johannes Willebrands (1909).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Netherlands

Among geographers born in Netherlands, Jan Janssonius ranks 2. Before him are Willem Blaeu (1571). After him are Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587).

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