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Peter Andreas Hansen

1795 - 1874

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Peter Andreas Hansen (born 8 December 1795, Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark; died 28 March 1874, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish-born German astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Andreas Hansen is the 223rd most popular astronomer (down from 198th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 218th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 223 out of 644. Before him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, Martin Schwarzschild, Adalbert Krueger, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Henri Debehogne, and Johannes Schöner. After him are Antonio de Ulloa, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, William Wallace Campbell, and Jérôme Eugène Coggia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 28. Before him are Heinrich Marschner, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, James Barry, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Johns Hopkins, and Augustin Thierry. After him are Antoine-Louis Barye, Maria Schicklgruber, Carl Anton von Meyer, Karl Eichwald, Policarpa Salavarrieta, and Andrew Dũng-Lạc. Among people deceased in 1874, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 24. Before him are Constantin von Tischendorf, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Ilija Garašanin, Moritz von Jacobi, Cochise, and Otto Hesse. After him are Hans Christian Lumbye, Louise Rasmussen, Ang Mey, Carl Meissner, Countess of Ségur, and Gustaaf Wappers.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 224 out of 1,032. Before him are Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829), Kurt Westergaard (1935), Inger Christensen (1935), and Conrad Malte-Brun (1775). After him are Eugenius Warming (1841), Valdemar Poulsen (1869), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Hans Christian Lumbye (1810), Louise Rasmussen (1815), and Wilhelm Marstrand (1810).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 4. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852). After him are Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Richard Martin West (1941), Holger Thiele (1878), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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