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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Heinrich von Thünen has received more than 345,198 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Johann Heinrich von Thünen is the 52nd most popular economist (up from 69th in 2019), the 600th most popular biography from Germany (up from 757th 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 52 out of 315. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat, John Hicks, Bernard Mandeville, Douglass North, Werner Sombart, and Kenneth Arrow. After him are Maurice Allais, Robert Mundell, W. Edwards Deming, Irving Fisher, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Franco Modigliani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 7. Before him are Stendhal, Simón Bolívar, Hortense de Beauharnais, Washington Irving, Agustín de Iturbide, and Hugh Glass. After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Vasily Zhukovsky, Friedrich Sertürner, and Catharina of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1850, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 11. Before him are Daoguang Emperor, Zachary Taylor, Báb, José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, and Frédéric Bastiat. After him are Louise of Orléans, Robert Peel, Lin Zexu, Germain Henri Hess, Jean-Pierre Boyer, and José Gervasio Artigas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Heinrich von Thünen ranks 600 out of 6,142. Before him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Oliver Kahn (1969), Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (1801), Werner Sombart (1863), Edith Frank (1900), and Georg Büchner (1813). After him are Bruno Bauer (1809), Norbert of Xanten (1080), Margot Frank (1926), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Polykarp Kusch (1911), and August Schleicher (1821).

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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 Gottfried Feder (1883), Eugen Dühring (1833), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Alfred Weber (1868), Lorenz von Stein (1815), and Oskar Morgenstern (1902).

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