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    Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of...
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    "Carl Ritter von Ghega – 2018 Surveyor of the Year". Kartografija I Geoinformacije. 18 (32): 64. doi:10.32909/kg.18.32.5. S2CID 214043118. Carl Ritter...
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    Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was knighted in 1897 as Ritter von Linde. Born in Berndorf [de], Bavaria as the son of a German-born minister...
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    is 29.5 km. It was named after German geographer Carl Ritter and German astrophysicist August Ritter. It is the northwestern member of a crater pair with...
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    knighthood Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun was an Austrian obstetrician. He was born 22 March 1822 in Zistersdorf, Austria, son of the medical doctor Carl August...
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    Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch (9 September 1837, Prague – 25 April 1905) was an Austrian-Jewish (Yekke) physician who was best known as the personal...
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    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...
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    Karl Ritter von Dombrowski (also known as Carl von Dombrowski; January 16, 1872 at Ullitz Castle (Úlice) in Bohemia – 1951 at Obermenzing) was a German...
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    named by Josiah Whitney, chief of the California Geological Survey, for Carl Ritter, who had been a teacher of his when he was a student in Berlin during...
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    the first pie chart. Around 1820, modern geography was established by Carl Ritter. His maps included shared frames, agreed map legends, scales, repeatability...
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    geographer and author of Geographia Generalis Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975) – cultural geographer. Carl Ritter (1779–1859) – occupied the first chair of geography...
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    was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ratzel, Kjellén would lay the foundations for the German Geopolitik...
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    range is named for Carl Ritter, who had been a teacher of Josiah Whitney when he was a student in Berlin in the 1840s." The Ritter Range, near the Minarets...
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    the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John Ritter, grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member...
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  • von Alt (1812–1905), Austrian landscape and architectural painter Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (1812–1887), Austrian ophthalmologist Joseph Calasanza...
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    not German. Moreover, Trouillot notes that Austro-German geographer Karl Ritter, who visited Sans Souci-Milot eight days after Christophe’s death, describes...
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  • Ritter may refer to: Karl Ritter (diplomat) (1883–1968), German diplomat Karl Ritter (director) (1888–1977), German film producer and director Carl Ritter...
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    pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established...
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  • (1886–1960), German opera singer Carl Braun (obstetrician) (1822–1891), Austrian obstetrician; knighted to Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun Karl Ferdinand...
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    have been cautious of taking his writings at face value. For example, Carl Ritter, in his highly influential Erdkunde in the 1840s, wrote in a review of...
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    Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839), father of German gymnastics Carl Ritter (1779–1859), founder of scientific geography Julius Wolff (1834–1910)...
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  • Architect Kasemi (1570–1659)  – master of Ottoman classical architecture Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802–1860) – engineer and designer of railways Enver Faja...
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    literature until the mid-19th century because, already then, scientists like Carl Ritter warned that only the part south of the Balkan Mountains could be considered...
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  • traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England. January 10 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway...
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    theory of environmental determinism, made popular in the 19th century by Carl Ritter and others, and has close links to the field of evolutionary biology...
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  • Auer von Welsbach: Alois Auer, Ritter von Welsbach Carl Auer, Freiherr (Baron) von Welsbach, son of Alois Auer (surname) Auer (disambiguation) Welsbach...
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    of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie (1892). In 1892 Höhnel was awarded the Carl Ritter Medal (silver) "for a first successful pioneering trip and for [his]...
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    Prague on 6 April 1925 to Jewish parents Carl Ritter and Elsa (née Schnabel). In 1939, at the age of 13, Ritter was evacuated from Czechoslovakia to England...
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    science influence Alexander von Humboldt and at smaller extent Carl Ritter. Humboldt and Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they...
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    glacier motion, especially in fast ice flow. Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975) – cultural geographer. Carl Ritter (1779–1859) – occupied the first chair of geography...
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