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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 27,456 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gottlieb Georgi is the 47th most popular geographer (up from 49th in 2019), the 667th most popular biography from Poland (up from 2,917th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 47 out of 67. Before him are Otto Nordenskjöld, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, and Erich von Drygalski. After him are Pedro Reinel, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Conrad Malte-Brun, Yi-Fu Tuan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Jan Janssonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 23. Before him are Pierre André de Suffren, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Gaétan Vestris, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Anders Chydenius, and Michael von Melas. After him are Giuseppe Parini, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Michael Denis, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, and Ivan Argunov. Among people deceased in 1802, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 18. Before him are Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Franz Aepinus, Jens Juel, Giuseppe Sarti, Jurij Vega, and George Romney. After him are Joseph Duplessis, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Joseph Ducreux, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, Thomas Girtin, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Gottlieb Georgi ranks 667 out of 1,454. Before him are Leo Baeck (1873), Lothar Bisky (1941), Stefan Rowecki (1895), Krystyna Janda (1952), Janusz Gajos (1939), and Alfred Saalwächter (1883). After him are Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), Carl Schuricht (1880), Holger Czukay (1938), Józef Glemp (1929), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), and Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866).

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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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