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Walter Christaller

1893 - 1969

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Walter Christaller (21 April 1893 – 9 March 1969) was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is central place theory, first published in 1933. This groundbreaking theory was the foundation of the study of cities as systems of cities, rather than simple hierarchies or single entities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Christaller has received more than 118,390 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Walter Christaller is the 3,844th most popular politician (down from 3,463rd in 2019), the 1,050th most popular biography from Germany (down from 952nd in 2019) and the 312th most popular German Politician.

Walter Christaller is most famous for his Central Place Theory. This theory states that people will travel to a central place to buy goods, and that the size of a town will be determined by the size of the market it can provide for.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Walter Christaller ranks 3,844 out of 15,577Before him are Cuitláhuac, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Julia Livilla, Alfonso II of Asturias, Li Yuanhong, and Rudolf Schuster. After him are Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal, Kunigunde of Austria, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, and Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Walter Christaller ranks 49Before him are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Emmy Göring, Hermann Balck, Ana Pauker, Ernst Toller, and Vsevolod Pudovkin. After him are Walter Baade, Erwin Piscator, Raymond Loewy, Allen Dulles, Clemens Krauss, and Roy O. Disney. Among people deceased in 1969, Walter Christaller ranks 38Before him are B. Traven, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Alexandra David-Néel, Boris Karloff, Robert Taylor, and Wacław Sierpiński. After him are Raymond A. Spruance, Eberhard von Mackensen, Vjekoslav Luburić, Allen Dulles, Zakir Husain, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Christaller ranks 1,050 out of 6,142Before him are Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887), Joseph Pilates (1883), Gerda Christian (1913), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Horst Tappert (1923), and Johann Mattheson (1681). After him are Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Lucian Freud (1922), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Karl Ludwig Harding (1765), Princess Alexandrine of Baden (1820), and Hanns Eisler (1898).

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