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GEOGRAPHER

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 245,504 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Wladimir Köppen is the 13th most popular geographer (down from 12th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from Russia (up from 187th 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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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Wladimir Köppen ranks 13 out of 67Before him are Pausanias, Carl Ritter, George Everest, Abraham Ortelius, Martin Waldseemüller, and Ferdinand von Richthofen. After him are Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pomponius Mela, Ya'qubi, David Harvey, and Ibn Jubayr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Wladimir Köppen ranks 10Before him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, George Westinghouse, Buffalo Bill, Edmondo De Amicis, Comte de Lautréamont, and Wilhelm Maybach. After him are Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Gaston Maspero, Nectarios of Aegina, Émile Gallé, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and G. Stanley Hall. Among people deceased in 1940, Wladimir Köppen ranks 16Before him are Nikolai Yezhov, Emma Goldman, Carl Bosch, Peter Behrens, Manuel Azaña, and Gerda Wegener. After him are Isaac Babel, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Spyridon Louis, Italo Balbo, and Verner von Heidenstam.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 184 out of 3,262Before him are Vladimir Propp (1895), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Igor Tamm (1895), Ivan Bunin (1870), and Alexander Rodchenko (1891). After him are Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Ivan Shishkin (1832).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In Russia

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