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.
Pieter van der Aa
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch publisher of maps and atlases
Pietro Coppo
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer and cartographer
Heinrich Glarean
Sweden
SwedenSwiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician
Karl Haushofer
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
Alfred Hettner
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, main theorist and founder of the chorological scientific school
Guido Ravennas
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages
Isay Guterman
Soviet aeroclimatologist
Adolf Bastian
Germany
GermanyGerman ethnologist
Felix Philipp Kanitz
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer and ethnographer
Adolphe Laurent Joanne
France
FranceFrench writer and geographer.
Guido Cora
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer
Emil von Sydow
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and cartographer
Richard Hartshorn
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
Ian Gamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer known for his work in industrial geography.
Otto Krummel
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer
Philipp Cluver
Germany
GermanyA German scholar who studied historical geography.
William Bunge
USA
USAAmerican geographer
Karl Sonklar
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer