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List of human geographers
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For a list of geographers, see List of geographers.
The following is a list of notable human geographers.
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- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), one of the founders of modern geography. he traveled extensively and pioneered empirical research methods that would later develop primarily into biogeography and physical geography but also anticipated population geography and economic geography.
Humboldt University of Berlin is named after von Humboldt and his brother Wilhelm von Humboldt.
- Carl Ritter (1779–1859), considered to be one of the founders of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.[1]
- Xavier Hommaire de Hell (1812–1848), research in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia
- Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), known for his monumental 19 volume The Earth and Its Inhabitants, he coined the term so
