BIOLOGIST

Peter Artedi

1705 - 1735

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Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (27 February 1705 – 28 September 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and collaborator of Carolus Linnaeus. He is sometimes known as the "father of ichthyology" for his pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Artedi is the 461st most popular biologist (down from 409th in 2019), the 422nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 409th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Artedi ranks 461 out of 1,097. Before him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Henrik Steffens, Antoine de Jussieu, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Francis Darwin, and Anna Russell. After him are Alexander Kovalevsky, Luther Burbank, Marie Stopes, Alain Bombard, William T. Stearn, and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Peter Artedi ranks 9. Before him are Leopold Joseph von Daun, Karim Khan Zand, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Charles-André van Loo, Jacques-François Blondel, and David Hartley. After him are Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Philipp Stamma, and Davit Guramishvili. Among people deceased in 1735, Peter Artedi ranks 11. Before him are Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Clementina Sobieska, Robert de Cotte, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje. After him are Carlo Ruzzini, Johann Krieger, Petr Brandl, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Jacob Bruce, and John Arbuthnot.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Peter Artedi ranks 422 out of 1,879. Before him are Lars Norén (1944), Ralf Edström (1952), Ola Ullsten (1931), Kennet Andersson (1967), Alice Babs (1924), and Johan Tobias Sergel (1740). After him are Kalle Svensson (1925), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Åke Seyffarth (1919), Sven Andersson (1907), and Petra Mede (1970).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Peter Artedi ranks 19. Before him are Erik Acharius (1757), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Daniel Solander (1733), Olof Swartz (1760), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780). After him are Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Charles De Geer (1720), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), and Nils Johan Andersson (1821).

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