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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 72,911 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Torsten Hägerstrand is the 61st most popular geographer (down from 57th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 541st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Geographer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 61 out of 67. Before him are Claes Jansz. Visscher, Guillaume Delisle, Hans Meyer, Vaclav Smil, Ellen Churchill Semple, and Adolf Stieler. After him are Anton Friedrich Büsching, Doreen Massey, John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, Ellsworth Huntington, and Carl O. Sauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 177. Before him are George Sidney, Harry James, Anna Yegorova, Yekaterina Zelenko, Pruden, and Dinah Shore. After him are Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson, Irwin Allen, Einar Englund, Mary Stewart, and Jenő Fock. Among people deceased in 2004, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 173. Before him are Augusto da Costa, Daouda Malam Wanké, Ancel Keys, John Randolph, John Drew Barrymore, and Frank Thomas. After him are Carlo Di Palma, Jacek Kuroń, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Eugenio Garin, Ljubiša Spajić, and Claude Nougaro.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torsten Hägerstrand ranks 584 out of 1,612. Before him are Nils Edén (1871), Naima Wifstrand (1890), Jan Myrdal (1927), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Mats Wahl (1945), and Claes Johanson (1884). After him are Carl Johan Thyselius (1811), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Ingvar Rydell (1922), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), and Henry Eriksson (1920).

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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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