Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic (died 1922)

Rudolf Kjellén

Swedish politician (1864-1922)

Johan Rudolf Kjellén was a Swedish political scientist, geographer and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics". His work was influenced by Friedrich Ratzel. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ratzel, Kjellén would lay the foundations for the German…