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Friedrich Ratzel  

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  • Friedrich Ratzel was a famous German geographer, zoologist, and anthropologist. His extensive work on the links between the physical environment and society and the organic nature of the state (Lebensraum, meaning “living space”) laid the foundations for geopolitics and political geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Ratzel, Friedrich]

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