1846 - 1940
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, Wladimir Köppen ranks 13 out of 67. Before 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.
110 - 180
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 7
1779 - 1859
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 8
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 9
1527 - 1598
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 10
1470 - 1520
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 11
1833 - 1905
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 12
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 13
1845 - 1918
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 14
820 - 912
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 15
15 - 100
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 16
801 - 898
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 17
1935 - Present
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 18
1145 - 1217
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1846, Wladimir Köppen ranks 10. Before 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 16. Before 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.
1846 - 1923
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 4
1846 - 1914
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 5
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 6
1846 - 1908
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 7
1846 - 1870
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 8
1846 - 1929
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 9
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 10
1846 - 1930
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 11
1846 - 1916
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 12
1846 - 1920
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 13
1846 - 1904
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 14
1846 - 1935
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 15
1846 - 1924
HPI: 61.66
Rank: 16
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 10
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 11
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 12
1868 - 1940
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 13
1880 - 1940
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 14
1886 - 1940
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 15
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 16
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 17
1857 - 1940
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 18
1860 - 1940
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 19
1873 - 1940
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 20
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 21
1859 - 1940
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 22
Among people born in Russia, Wladimir Köppen ranks 184 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1895 - 1970
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 178
1754 - 1833
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 179
1901 - 1944
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 180
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 181
1870 - 1953
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 182
1891 - 1956
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 183
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 184
1925 - 2015
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 185
1530 - 1560
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 186
1882 - 1960
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 187
1884 - 1937
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 188
1853 - 1900
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 189
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 190
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).
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 1
1827 - 1914
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 2
1865 - 1949
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 3
1856 - 1940
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 4