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Julius Popper

1857 - 1893

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Julius Popper (December 15, 1857 – June 5, 1893), known in Spanish as Julio Popper (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo poˈpeɾ]), was a Romanian-born Argentine engineer, adventurer, and explorer. He was known as a modern "conquistador" of Tierra del Fuego in southern South America, and was both a controversial and influential figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Popper has received more than 187,520 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius Popper is the 222nd most popular explorer, the 164th most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Explorer.

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  • 16

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Julius Popper ranks 222 out of 405Before him are Alejandro Malaspina, René Caillié, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Ruy López de Villalobos, Wulfstan of Hedeby, and Lady Hester Stanhope. After him are Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, Pedro Arias Dávila, Rodrigo de Bastidas, and Douglas Mawson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Julius Popper ranks 66Before him are A. E. Waite, Émile Cohl, Hermann Sudermann, Abdurreshid Ibrahim, Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, and Arthur Arz von Straußenburg. After him are Luigi Illica, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Léon Charles Thévenin, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and James Edward Keeler. Among people deceased in 1893, Julius Popper ranks 33Before him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, José Zorrilla, Ford Madox Brown, Jacob Moleschott, Robert Cornelius, and Rudolf Wolf. After him are Matsudaira Katamori, Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Samuel Baker, Nikolai Zverev, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, and Anna Bilińska.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Julius Popper ranks 164 out of 665Before him are Nicolae Paulescu (1869), Ulpia Severina (300), Vazgen I (1908), Arthur Arz von Straußenburg (1857), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Dan Petrescu (1967). After him are Ignaz von Born (1742), Gheorghe Tătărescu (1886), Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906), Péter Pázmány (1570), István Bethlen (1874), and Stephen Pongracz (1582).

Among EXPLORERS In Romania

Among explorers born in Romania, Julius Popper ranks 1After him are Nikolai Spathari (1636) and Sámuel Teleki (1845).