Anton Friedrich Büsching
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Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793) was a celebrated German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 theologian and geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...

.

His Erdbeschreibung ("Earth description") was the first geographical work of any scientific merit. The first 10 parts feature the geography of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, the 11. Asia, when he died, Matthias Christian Sprengel and several further geographers continued.

In 1762, Büsching became headmaster of the Petrischule, a celebrated German-language secondary school
Secondary school
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 in St. Petersburg.
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