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F.ratzel
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Humboldt
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C.ritter
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B.varenius
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Detailed explanation-1: -Carl Ritter, (born Aug. 7, 1779, Quedlinburg, Prussia-died Sept. 28, 1859, Berlin), German geographer who was cofounder, with Alexander von Humboldt, of modern geographical science. Ritter received an excellent education in the natural sciences and was well versed in history and theology.
Detailed explanation-2: -The German geographer Carl Ritter (1779-1859) created a new geographical science by applying the logical structure of eighteenth-century German educational psychology to the encyclopedic body of existing geographical knowledge.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was one of the founders of regional geography and stressed that geography should first concentrate on the study of all the interrelated phenomena to be found in each of all the areas of the world, and then on their basis systematic studies could be made on the relations of individual type of phenomena.