ECONOMIST

Johann Heinrich von Thünen

1783 - 1850

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Johann Heinrich von Thünen (24 June 1783 – 22 September 1850), sometimes spelled Thuenen, was a prominent nineteenth-century economist and a native of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, now in northern Germany. Even though he never held a professorial position, von Thunen had substantial influence on economics. He has been described as one of the founders of agricultural economics and economic geography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Heinrich von Thünen has received more than 357,615 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Johann Heinrich von Thünen is the 57th most popular economist (down from 51st in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Germany (down from 600th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Economist.

Johann Heinrich von Thünen is most famous for his theory of agricultural land use, which states that the most profitable use of land is to use it for the crop that yields the highest return per unit of land.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 57 out of 414. Before him are Thorstein Veblen, Tansu Çiller, Werner Sombart, Bertil Ohlin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Douglass North. After him are Benjamin Graham, Wang Anshi, Theodore Schultz, Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, and Franco Modigliani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 6. Before him are Stendhal, Simón Bolívar, Hortense de Beauharnais, Agustín de Iturbide, and Washington Irving. After him are N. F. S. Grundtvig, Hugh Glass, Vasily Zhukovsky, Friedrich Sertürner, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, and Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. Among people deceased in 1850, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 12. Before him are Daoguang Emperor, Báb, José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, Frédéric Bastiat, and Louise of Orléans. After him are Lin Zexu, Germain Henri Hess, José Gervasio Artigas, Robert Peel, Nikolaus Lenau, and Jean-Pierre Boyer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 678 out of 7,253. Before him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636), Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Ernst Mayr (1904), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876). After him are Jürgen Stroop (1895), Gertrude the Great (1256), Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869), Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821), Hugo Ball (1886), and Hans Morgenthau (1904).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 6. Before him are Karl Marx (1818), Klaus Schwab (1938), Wassily Leontief (1906), Friedrich List (1789), and Werner Sombart (1863). After him are Eugen Dühring (1833), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Alfred Weber (1868), Gottfried Feder (1883), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), and Lorenz von Stein (1815).

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