“Culture grows in places that can adequately support dense labor populations.”
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Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum in the sense that the National Socialists later would.
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culture · German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904) · geopolitical analyst · geographer · zoologist · political scientist · university teacher · journalist · also Friedrich Ratzel, Ratzel
Born 30 August 1844 · Died 9 August 1904 · Q76762
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-08-09.
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1896· 1 entry
And contained over 1100 excellent engravings and remarkable chromolithography
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1895· 1 entry
“A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one—a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.”
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1886· 1 entry
Accepted an appointment at Leipzig University
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1876· 2 entries
Städte-und Kulturbilder aus Nordamerika (Profile of Cities and Cultures in North America), which would help establish the field of cultural geography
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Was promoted to assistant professor, then rose to full professor in 1880
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1875· 1 entry
Ratzel became a lecturer in geography at the Technical High School in Munich
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1870· 1 entry
Joined the Prussian army and was wounded twice during the war
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1869· 1 entry
Publishing Sein und Werden der organischen Welt on Darwin
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1863· 1 entry
Went to Rapperswil on the Lake of Zurich, Switzerland, where he began to study the classics
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-08-30.
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