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Otto Finsch

1839 - 1917

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Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Several species of bird (such as Oenanthe finschii, Iole finschii, Psittacula finschii) are named after him as also the town of Finschhafen in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea and a crater on the Moon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Finsch is the 230th most popular explorer (up from 285th in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from Poland (up from 683rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Otto Finsch ranks 230 out of 498. Before him are Mark Sykes, Juan de Garay, Francisco de Bobadilla, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, and Anthony van Diemen. After him are Pehr Osbeck, Naddodd, Lourenço Marques, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Carl Anton Larsen, and André Thevet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Otto Finsch ranks 39. Before him are Ivan Goremykin, Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Imre Steindl, Ouida, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Hermann Levi. After him are Béni Kállay, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Hans Thoma, Hermann Hankel, Nikolai Linevich, and Pōmare V. Among people deceased in 1917, Otto Finsch ranks 51. Before him are Eugène Grasset, Ivan Goremykin, Eduardo di Capua, Bérenger Saunière, Liu Yongfu, and Georges Guynemer. After him are Enric Prat de la Riba, Spyridon Samaras, Eric Campbell, Duke Philipp of Württemberg, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Émile Boirac.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Finsch ranks 540 out of 1,694. Before him are Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Symon Budny (1530), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), Heinz Kessler (1920), Józef Brandt (1841), and Emil Krebs (1867). After him are Stefan Żeromski (1864), Helmut Lent (1918), Hans Woellke (1911), Karol Lipiński (1790), Zawisza Czarny (1379), and Ryszard Siwiec (1909).

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Among EXPLORERS In Poland

Among explorers born in Poland, Otto Finsch ranks 2. Before him are Emin Pasha (1840). After him are Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Theodor Kotschy (1813), Paweł Strzelecki (1797), Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (1936), and Marek Kamiński (1964).

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