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Carl Peters

1856 - 1918

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Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918) was a German explorer and colonial administrator. He was a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of today’s Tanzania) and one of the founders of the German East Africa Company. He was a controversial figure in Germany for his views and his brutal treatment of native Africans, which ultimately led to his dismissal from government service in 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Peters is the 354th most popular explorer (down from 259th in 2019), the 3,988th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,037th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Carl Peters ranks 354 out of 498. Before him are Paweł Strzelecki, Juan de Oñate, Florence Baker, Alexander Dalrymple, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, and Pyotr Anjou. After him are Humphrey Gilbert, Elisha Kent Kane, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Matvei Gedenshtrom, Albert von Le Coq, and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl Peters ranks 89. Before him are Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Eduardo Dato, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Alfred Deakin, Luigi Bianchi, and Ernst Brenner. After him are Matilde Serao, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Władysław Ślewiński, Aleksander Brückner, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, and Edmund Beecher Wilson. Among people deceased in 1918, Carl Peters ranks 129. Before him are Victor Willems, George Lawrence Price, Sophie Menter, Vasily Safonov, Nikolai Ruzsky, and Henry Adams. After him are Ali Aaltonen, Lucretia Garfield, George Coșbuc, Albert Ballin, Władysław Ślewiński, and Savva Mamontov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 3,990 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Heinrich Zille (1858), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Wilferd Madelung (1930), Eva Justin (1909), and Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1786). After him are Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg (1653), Ignaz von Rudhart (1790), Leopold Andrian (1875), August Diehl (1976), Otto Ludwig (1813), and Josepha Weber (1759).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 20. Before him are Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Hermann Wissmann (1853), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), and Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804). After him are Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Karl Mauch (1837), and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810).

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