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Johannes Gabriel Granö

1882 - 1956

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Johannes Gabriel Granö (14 March 1882 – 23 February 1956) was a Finnish geographer, chiefly remembered as a professor of three universities and an explorer of Siberia and Mongolia. He is also noted for his pioneering studies on landscape geography, and his book Pure Geography. Granö was a professor in universities of Tartu, Helsinki, and Turku.Granö studied in Helsinki University, starting 1900 in botany but changing his major subject to geography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Gabriel Granö has received more than 8,728 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Gabriel Granö is the 70th most popular geographer, the 330th most popular biography from Finland and the most popular Finnish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 70 out of 67Before him are John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, Ellsworth Huntington, Carl O. Sauer, Yuly Shokalsky, and Herman Moll. After him are Arnold Henry Guyot, John Speed, Thomas Griffith Taylor, and Henry Schoolcraft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 229Before him are Péter Tóth, George van Rossem, Edward Van Sloan, Oswald Holmberg, Axel Sjöblom, and Maurice Peeters. After him are Mary Boland, Ödön Bodor, Ricardo J. Alfaro, Frederick Moloney, Sven Forssman, and Clarence Kingsbury. Among people deceased in 1956, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 178Before him are Walther Kossel, Benjamin Glazer, Grigory Shajn, Oskar Olsen, Max Emmerich, and Wollmar Boström. After him are Hatı Çırpan, Frithiof Mårtensson, Leonard Peterson, Norman Kerry, Otto Scheff, and René Fernández.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 330 out of 642Before him are Harri Kirvesniemi (1958), Heidi Hautala (1955), Aulis Kallakorpi (1929), Vilho Lampi (1898), Sami Vänskä (1976), and Lassi Parkkinen (1917). After him are Kaarlo Tuominen (1908), Paavo Väyrynen (1946), Hannu Salama (1936), Katri Vala (1901), Toni Nieminen (1975), and Urho Peltonen (1893).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In Finland

Among geographers born in Finland, Johannes Gabriel Granö ranks 1