Anton Friedrich Büsching

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"Büsching" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Büsching (crater).

Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724-1793) was a celebrated German geographer.

His Erdbeschreibung ("Earth description") was the first geographical work of any scientific merit. It gives only the geography of Europe.

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