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Peter Forsskål

1732 - 1763

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Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Forsskål is the 233rd most popular biologist (up from 272nd in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Finland (up from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Forsskål ranks 233 out of 1,097. Before him are Waldemar Haffkine, John James Audubon, Othenio Abel, Anders Sparrman, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Ana Aslan. After him are Albert Günther, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodor Escherich, Rudolf Vrba, J. B. S. Haldane, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Peter Forsskål ranks 17. Before him are John Dickinson, Adélaïde of France, Abbas III, Richard Arkwright, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Carl Gotthard Langhans. After him are Hieronymus von Colloredo, Warren Hastings, Nevil Maskelyne, František Brixi, John Blair Jr., and Joseph Gaertner. Among people deceased in 1763, Peter Forsskål ranks 7. Before him are Augustus III of Poland, Princess Isabella of Parma, Antoine François Prévost, Cao Xueqin, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Pierre de Marivaux. After him are Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 56 out of 751. Before him are Liisi Oterma (1915), Eliel Saarinen (1873), Hugo Simberg (1873), Matti Nykänen (1963), Aino Aalto (1894), and Armi Kuusela (1934). After him are Hannu Mikkola (1942), Marco Hietala (1966), Georg Henrik von Wright (1916), Aimo Cajander (1879), Tarja Turunen (1977), and Fredrik Idestam (1838).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Finland

Among biologists born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 1. After him are Alexander von Nordmann (1803), Christian von Steven (1781), Petter Adolf Karsten (1834), and Ilkka Hanski (1953).

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