Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Philipp Clüver
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Read Next
Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom
What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
Discover
airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around
Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.
Holi: Festival of Colors
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.
U.S. Death Toll During Major Events
World map. Continents. Oceans. Mendel thumb ok
Just How Many Oceans Are There?

Philipp Clüver: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Philipp-Cluver
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born 1580 • Gdańsk • Poland
Died December 31, 1622 (aged 42) • Leiden • Netherlands
Notable Works “Introductio in Universam Geographiam”
Subjects Of Study historical geography
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter
German geographer
Alfred Hettner
German geographer
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
Behaim, Martin
Martin Behaim
Portuguese geographer and navigator
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Bernhardus Varenius
German geographer
Sebastian Münster, detail from an engraving, c. 1550.
Sebastian Münster
German scholar
Anton Friedrich Büsching
German geographer
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer