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Otto Nordenskjöld

1869 - 1928

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Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Nordenskjöld has received more than 87,449 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Otto Nordenskjöld is the 40th most popular geographer (up from 41st in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 289th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Geographer.

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  • 55.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Otto Nordenskjöld ranks 40 out of 86. Before him are Artemidorus Ephesius, Jovan Cvijić, Vincenzo Coronelli, Jodocus Hondius, Alfred Hettner, and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. After him are Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Marie Tharp, and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Otto Nordenskjöld ranks 69. Before him are Hans Poelzig, Algernon Blackwood, Louise d'Orléans, Caterina Albert, Philip de László, and Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau. After him are Chittaranjan Das, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Tony Garnier, Michael von Faulhaber, Konstantin Somov, and Léon Brunschvicg. Among people deceased in 1928, Otto Nordenskjöld ranks 48. Before him are Hannah Chaplin, Léon Duguit, José Sánchez del Río, Eglantyne Jebb, Adolphe Appia, and Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau. After him are Mauritz Stiller, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Medardo Rosso, Larry Semon, and Hermann Sudermann.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Otto Nordenskjöld ranks 314 out of 1,879. Before him are Rogvolod (901), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), Gillis Grafström (1893), Håkan the Red (1040), Sven Nordqvist (1946), and Krister Henriksson (1946). After him are Lasse Berghagen (1945), Allan Edwall (1924), Eric Lemming (1880), Reine Wisell (1941), Erik Dahlbergh (1625), and Bo Widerberg (1930).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Sweden

Among geographers born in Sweden, Otto Nordenskjöld ranks 1. After him are Torsten Hägerstrand (1916).

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