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GEOGRAPHER

Jovan Cvijić

1865 - 1927

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Jovan Cvijić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Цвијић, pronounced [jǒʋan tsʋǐːjitɕ]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade. Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jovan Cvijić has received more than 130,397 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jovan Cvijić is the 38th most popular geographer (down from 33rd in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 87th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Geographer.

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  • 27

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Jovan Cvijić ranks 38 out of 67Before him are Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Jodocus Hondius, Vincenzo Coronelli, Willem Blaeu, Alfred Hettner, and Artemidorus Ephesius. After him are Johann Georg Gmelin, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, and Inō Tadataka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Jovan Cvijić ranks 57Before him are Sabino Arana, Rainis, Charles Bally, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Anandi Gopal Joshi. After him are Bronisława Dłuska, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Rafael Merry del Val, Princess Olga Paley, Hannah Chaplin, and Friedrich Paschen. Among people deceased in 1927, Jovan Cvijić ranks 43Before him are Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Sergey Sazonov, Jānis Čakste, Ahad Ha'am, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Wilhelm Stenhammar. After him are William, Prince of Hohenzollern, Inayat Khan, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Lizzie Borden, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Jovan Cvijić ranks 95 out of 564Before him are Radivoj Korać (1938), Petar Stambolić (1912), Saliha Sultan (1680), Rajko Mitić (1922), Šaban Šaulić (1951), and Nadežda Petrović (1873). After him are Velibor Vasović (1939), Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria (1300), Svetozar Gligorić (1923), Koča Popović (1908), Đorđe Balašević (1953), and Stepa Stepanović (1856).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In Serbia

Among geographers born in Serbia, Jovan Cvijić ranks 1