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Johann Gottlieb Georgi

1729 - 1802

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Johann Gottlieb Georgi (31 December 1729 – 27 October 1802) was a German-Russian botanist, naturalist and geographer. A native of Pomerania, Georgi accompanied both Johan Peter Falk and Peter Simon Pallas on their respective journeys through Siberia. During 1770-1774 he travelled on its behalf to Astrakhan, the Urals, Bashkir, the Barabinsk steppe, the Kolyvanskoe silver mines (to assess the ore content), Altai, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Baikal, and Dauren. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottlieb Georgi has received more than 27,176 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Georgi is the 56th most popular geographer (down from 47th in 2019), the 736th most popular biography from Poland (down from 667th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geographer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Johann Gottlieb Georgi has had the most page views in the with 7,274 views, followed by English (3,270), and Kazakh (1,083). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kirghiz (89.33%), Finnish (48.34%), and Ukrainian (38.69%)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 56 out of 86. Before him are Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Arnold Henry Guyot, Pedro Reinel, Hans Meyer, and Yves Lacoste. After him are Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, Claes Jansz. Visscher, August Heinrich Petermann, Torsten Hägerstrand, and Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 24. Before him are Pierre André de Suffren, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Michael von Melas, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, and Christian Gottlob Heyne. After him are Giuseppe Parini, Michael Denis, Ivan Argunov, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, and Clara Reeve. Among people deceased in 1802, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 19. Before him are Jurij Vega, Giuseppe Sarti, George Romney, Franz Aepinus, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, and August Batsch. After him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Joseph Duplessis, Daniel Morgan, Thomas Girtin, Joseph Ducreux, and Ivan Argunov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 736 out of 1,694. Before him are Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Kurt Feldt (1897), Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), Janusz Kusociński (1907), and Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875). After him are Salomėja Nėris (1904), Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907), Willibald Alexis (1798), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Basia (1954), and Marcin Bielski (1495).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Poland

Among geographers born in Poland, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 2. Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833).

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