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Johann Heinrich von Thünen (24 June 1783 - 22 September 1850) "ranks alongside Marx as the greatest economist of the nineteenth century" (Fernand Braudel). Von Thünen was a Mecklenburg (north German) landowner, who in the first volume of his treatise, The Isolated State (1826), developed the first serious treatment of spatial economics, connecting it with the theory of rent. The importance lies less in the pattern of land use predicted than in its analytical approach.