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Wladimir Köppen

1846 - 1940

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Wladimir Petrovich Köppen ( KUR-pən; German: [ˈkœpn̩]; Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Кёппен, romanized: Vladímir Petróvich Kyoppen, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈkʲɵp(ː)ʲɪn]; 25 September 1846 – 22 June 1940) was a Russian–German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist. After studies in St. Petersburg, he spent the bulk of his life and professional career in Germany and Austria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wladimir Köppen has received more than 269,531 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Wladimir Köppen is the 12th most popular geographer (up from 13th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Russia (up from 184th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Geographer.

Wladimir Köppen is most famous for his work on climate classification and climatology.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Wladimir Köppen ranks 12 out of 86. Before him are Piri Reis, Pausanias, Carl Ritter, Abraham Ortelius, Ferdinand von Richthofen, and Martin Waldseemüller. After him are Ya'qubi, Georg Joachim Rheticus, George Everest, Pomponius Mela, Ibn Khordadbeh, and Paul Vidal de La Blache.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Wladimir Köppen ranks 10. Before him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, George Westinghouse, Edmondo De Amicis, Wilhelm Maybach, Comte de Lautréamont, and Buffalo Bill. After him are Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Naim Frashëri, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Gaston Maspero, Antonio Abetti, and Eusebi Güell. Among people deceased in 1940, Wladimir Köppen ranks 19. Before him are Arthur Harden, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Isaac Babel. After him are John Buchan, Italo Balbo, Spyridon Louis, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Gerda Wegener.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 180 out of 3,761. Before him are Öz Beg Khan (1282), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Witold Pilecki (1901), Felix Yusupov (1887), and Sergei Diaghilev (1872). After him are Roman Abramovich (1966), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Ivan Bunin (1870), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Seraphim of Sarov (1754).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Russia

Among geographers born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 1. After him are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), Erich von Drygalski (1865), and Yuly Shokalsky (1856).

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