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Sven Hedin

1865 - 1952

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Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven Hedin has received more than 339,722 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Sven Hedin is the 43rd most popular explorer (up from 48th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Explorer.

Sven Hedin is most famous for being the first person to be convicted of murder in Canada. He was found guilty of the murder of his wife, and was sentenced to life in prison.

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  • 43

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Sven Hedin ranks 43 out of 405Before him are Robert Falcon Scott, Martin Behaim, Ernest Shackleton, Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, and Ingólfr Arnarson. After him are William Baffin, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Diego de Almagro, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Jacob Roggeveen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Sven Hedin ranks 14Before him are Archduke Otto of Austria, W. B. Yeats, Alexander Glazunov, Carl Nielsen, Paul Dukas, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are Suzanne Valadon, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Philipp Scheidemann, Andranik, Alfred Hugenberg, and Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1952, Sven Hedin ranks 15Before him are Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Benedetto Croce, Walter Schellenberg, Elena of Montenegro, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. After him are Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Ferenc Molnár, Paramahansa Yogananda, Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jürgen Stroop, and Kiichiro Toyoda.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Hedin ranks 72 out of 1,612Before him are Carl Larsson (1853), Keke Rosberg (1948), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Axel Oxenstierna (1583), Ronnie Peterson (1944), and Marie Fredriksson (1958). After him are Arne Tiselius (1902), Olof Skötkonung (980), Louise of Sweden (1851), Marie Taglioni (1804), Haakon VI of Norway (1340), and Eyvind Johnson (1900).

Among EXPLORERS In Sweden

Among explorers born in Sweden, Sven Hedin ranks 1After him are Salomon August Andrée (1854), Pehr Osbeck (1723), Oscar Dickson (1823), and Charles John Andersson (1827).