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Friedrich Ratzel



Ratzel, Friedrich (1844–1904), German geographer. With works such as Anthropogeography (1882–91), Political Geography (1897), The History of Mankind (1896–98), and Lebensraum (1901), he strongly influenced later German geopolitics.



See also: Geopolitics.

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