Who is a famous geographer?
Alexander Von Humboldt, the well-known German Geographer from the 19th Century was famous for his work in botanical geography. Marco Polo, who “was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China … and visit Kublai Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty.” Carl O. Sauer. “Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article “Recent Developments in Cultural Geography,” which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of “the forms superimposed on the physical landscape.”” For a large list of well-known geographers see the link below.
