Question

Name four geographers of the 19th century​

Answer 1

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there are many geographers of 19th century are Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Carl Ritter (1779-1859)

Friedrich ratzel (1844-1904)

Paul Vidual de la blache (1845-1918) thanx!!!

Answer 2

Alexander von Humboldt

Next is Alexander von Humboldt. He was an explorer and naturalist during the 18th-19th centuries, and his work laid the foundation for the science of biogeography. He was the first person to develop the idea that weather patterns, geology, and biology all played a part in determining which plants were capable of thriving in which areas. He painstakingly collected geographical and biological data over a period of years, and carefully traced the relationships he found between them. The end result was the Kosmos, a multi-volume work that covered the aspects of geography and natural science that he devoted his life to.

Carl Ritter

Next, one of the most important figures in modern geography is Carl Ritter. Working during the 19th century, Ritter treated the various geographical features of the world like organs in the human body- he believed that each one interacted with the others to create a cohesive whole, and that, just like a person’s organs determined their health, the geographic features of a place affected the history of its inhabitants. He wrote the 19-volume Geography in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind (Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen), and, along with Kant, was instrumental in establishing geography as a field of study.

Al Idrisi

The second is the 12th century geographer and cartographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti, also called Al Idrisi, or Dreses. He’s just as famous for being a cartographer as he is for a geographer. A pre-Renaissance Renaissance man, Al Idrisi didn’t just create the map of Eurasia and north Africa found in the Tabula Rogeriana, he also wrote an extremely detailed account of all of the geographical features, ethnic groups, socioeconomic factors, and other features of every area he drew. His information was gleaned from interviews with visitors to the areas he wrote about, as well as his own travels- in a time period when few people traveled more than five or ten miles from their homes, he had visited Spain, Portugal, France, Anatolia, and England by age sixteen, and traveled even more extensively later in life. The Tabula Rogeriana is his most famous work of geography and cartography, and was created for King Roger II of Sicily.

Immanuel Kant

Fourth is Immanuel Kant. Though Kant is known more for being an 19th century philosopher than a geographer, his work is a large part of the reason why geography is treated as a legitimate science today. He believed that geography classified things according to place, while history classified things according to time. As a result, according to Kant, geography had an important place in virtually every facet of knowledge. By establishing the academic importance of geography, he lent more legitimacy to geography as an intellectual discipline.