Geographers

Explore the lives and contributions of prominent geographers throughout history, from ancient cartographers to modern-day explorers. Get insights into their discoveries, theories, and how they shaped our understanding of the world.

Paul Vidal de la Blache

French geographer and geopolitician.

Anglo-American geographer, representative of the school of spatial analysis, then one of the founders of the so-called. "radical geography".

German ethnologist

German geographer and cartographer

Walter Christaller

German geographer, author of the theory of central places

Torsten Hagerstrand

Swedish geographer

Carl Ortwin Sauer

American geographer, founder of modern cultural geography

Ancient Greek naturalist, geographer and natural philosopher

English geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world

Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

Scottish scientist

Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville

French geographer and cartographer

Vladimir Keppen

German-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.

Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers

German geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography

Famous French geographer, participant in the Paris Commune. In collaboration with other authors, he created an extensive work on world geography, translated into many languages

Soviet aeroclimatologist

French geographer and geopolitician

Russian geographer and meteorologist

French geographer and botanist

Bulgarian geographer and educator

A 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad

Italian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages

Swedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.

Gerhardt Mercator

Flemish cartographer

British geographer.

Vladimir Arseniev

Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region

Vladimir Dergachev

Ukrainian geopolitician, geographer-economist, professor

Frederick Jackson

English polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia

Alexander Zupan

Austrian geographer and meteorologist.

Alexander Djavahishvili

An outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist

A German scholar who studied historical geography.

Azerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences

German geographer

Heinrich Glarean

Swiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician

Matthias Quaden

German geographer and cartographer.

Alfred Kirchhoff

German geographer.

Alexander von Humboldt

German naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich

German geographer.

Czech surveyor and geographer.

Evgeniy Lavrenko

Soviet geobotanist

Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences

British geographer

American geographer

Philippe Buache

French geographer

German-Dutch geographer

Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky

Russian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society

Dmitriy Anychin

Soviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist

Richard Hartshorn

American geographer, founder of behavioral geography.

Danish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.

Maxim Bogdasarov

Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geography

Wilbur Zelinsky

American geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.