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Robert Hermann Schomburgk

1804 - 1865

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Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a Holy Roman Empire-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for the United Kingdom in the Dominican Republic and Thailand. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Hermann Schomburgk is the 352nd most popular explorer (down from 293rd in 2019), the 3,971st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,346th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Robert Hermann Schomburgk ranks 352 out of 498. Before him are Sebastián Vizcaíno, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Paweł Strzelecki, Juan de Oñate, Florence Baker, and Alexander Dalrymple. After him are Pyotr Anjou, Carl Peters, Humphrey Gilbert, Elisha Kent Kane, Édouard-Alfred Martel, and Matvei Gedenshtrom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Robert Hermann Schomburgk ranks 54. Before him are Alvan Clark, Osceola, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Jules Janin, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, and Jules Dupuit. After him are Wilhelm Bendz, Gheorghe Bibescu, Richard Cobden, Victor Schœlcher, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, and Mariana Pineda. Among people deceased in 1865, Robert Hermann Schomburgk ranks 56. Before him are Joseph Lebeau, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Alexander Dukhnovych, Charles Lock Eastlake, Mary Surratt, and John Richardson. After him are Otto Ludwig, Eugène Devéria, Richard Cobden, Antonios Kriezis, Marie-Anne Libert, and Kitsos Tzavelas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Hermann Schomburgk ranks 3,973 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Johann Beckmann (1739), Wilhelm Solf (1862), Justus Möser (1720), Theodor Curtius (1857), and J. C. Leyendecker (1874). After him are Frederic Lewy (1885), Otto Deßloch (1889), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), Andrey Osterman (1686), and Jacques Mieses (1865).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Robert Hermann Schomburgk ranks 19. Before him are Karl Weyprecht (1838), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Hermann Wissmann (1853), and Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540). After him are Carl Peters (1856), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), and Karl Mauch (1837).

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