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Carl Peter Thunberg

1743 - 1828

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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. He has been called "the father of South African botany", "pioneer of Occidental Medicine in Japan", and the "Japanese Linnaeus". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Peter Thunberg is the 121st most popular biologist (up from 139th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 158th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Biologist.

Carl Peter Thunberg was a Swedish botanist who traveled to Japan in 1775 and brought back many new plant species to Europe.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 121 out of 1,097. Before him are William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, Ferdinand Cohn, James Edward Smith, and Sylvia Earle. After him are John Hopfield, Erasmus Darwin, Carl Nägeli, Hans Christian Gram, Robert Whittaker, and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 13. Before him are Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and Martin Heinrich Klaproth. After him are Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, Gavrila Derzhavin, Edmund Cartwright, and William I, Elector of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1828, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 6. Before him are Franz Schubert, Francisco Goya, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Shaka, and James Edward Smith. After him are Victor of Aveyron, Maria Feodorovna, Kobayashi Issa, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, and William Hyde Wollaston.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 117 out of 1,879. Before him are Svante Pääbo (1955), Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943), Olaus Magnus (1490), Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), and Jenny Lind (1820). After him are Franz Berwald (1796), Peter Stormare (1953), Nils Liedholm (1922), Lennart Torstensson (1603), Charles VII of Sweden (1130), and Ingemar Stenmark (1956).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 6. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Hugo Theorell (1903), Svante Pääbo (1955), and Elias Magnus Fries (1794). After him are Adam Afzelius (1750), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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