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Torsten Hägerstrand

1916 - 2004

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Torsten Hägerstrand (October 11, 1916, in Moheda – May 3, 2004, in Lund) was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography. A native and resident of Sweden, Hägerstrand was a professor (later professor emeritus) of geography at Lund University, where he received his doctorate in 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torsten Hägerstrand has received more than 77,759 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Torsten Hägerstrand is the 61st most popular geographer, the 563rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 583rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 61 out of 86. Before him are Yves Lacoste, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Guillaume Delisle, Emmanuel de Martonne, Claes Jansz. Visscher, and August Heinrich Petermann. After him are Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Peter Schenk the Elder, John Walter Gregory, Vaclav Smil, Nicolas de Fer, and Ellen Churchill Semple.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 159. Before him are Anton Diffring, Werner Bischof, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Svend Asmussen, Jenő Fock, and Franco Fabrizi. After him are George Sidney, Anne Hébert, Halet Çambel, Herbert Friedman, Johnny Claes, and Tatevik Sazandaryan. Among people deceased in 2004, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 166. Before him are Evelyn Mase, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Janet Frame, Christl Cranz, Carvalho Leite, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra. After him are Gennadi Strekalov, Tony Randall, Agnes Martin, Jacek Kuroń, Angus Ogilvy, and Joan Aiken.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 563 out of 1,879. Before him are Ivar Jacobson (1939), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Sven Lindqvist (1932), Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Karl Staaff (1860), and Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585). After him are Sven Axbom (1926), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), Janet Ågren (1949), Lisbeth Palme (1931), Arne Åhman (1925), and Lennart Nilsson (1922).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Sweden

Among geographers born in Sweden, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 2. Before him are Otto Nordenskjöld (1869).

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