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Carl Ritter  

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  • One of the great intellectual giants of 19th-century geography, Carl Ritter was an influential professor in Frankfurt and Berlin. He is often described as one of the two principal founders of modern geography, compared with his contemporary, Alexander von Humboldt. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Ritter, Carl]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZZZXL98N-J

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