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Peter Ascanius

1723 - 1803

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Peter Ascanius (24 May 1723 – 4 June 1803) was a Norwegian-Danish biologist and geologist. He was a professor of zoology and mineralogy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Ascanius is the 890th most popular biologist (up from 894th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Norway (up from 405th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Norwegian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Ascanius ranks 890 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Tate Regan, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Thomas Andrew Knight, Jakob Emanuel Lange, William Townsend Aiton, and Tokiharu Abe. After him are Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Paul Henri Lecomte, Frederic Clements, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Benjamin Smith Barton, and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Peter Ascanius ranks 27. Before him are William Blackstone, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Antoine Louis, William Chambers, John Byron, and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet. After him are Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Richard Price, William Livingston, and Crispus Attucks. Among people deceased in 1803, Peter Ascanius ranks 40. Before him are Peter Woulfe, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, George Bass, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, and Lemuel Francis Abbott. After him are Nikolay Lvov, and Robert Emmet.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Peter Ascanius ranks 352 out of 1,039. Before him are Therese Johaug (1988), Fartein Valen (1887), Grímur Kamban (801), Simen Agdestein (1967), Gjermund Eggen (1941), and Otto Bahr Halvorsen (1872). After him are Finn Helgesen (1919), Jens Bjørneboe (1920), Shagrath (1976), Narve Bonna (1901), Cort Adeler (1622), and Johannes Thingnes Bø (1993).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Norway

Among biologists born in Norway, Peter Ascanius ranks 9. Before him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), Henrik Steffens (1773), Kristine Bonnevie (1872), Georg Ossian Sars (1837), Leonhard Stejneger (1851), and Michael Sars (1805). After him are Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873).

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