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Wilhelm Peters

1815 - 1883

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Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Peters is the 344th most popular biologist (down from 281st in 2019), the 2,244th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,199th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Peters ranks 344 out of 1,097. Before him are Valerius Cordus, Phillip Allen Sharp, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, George Robert Waterhouse, Josif Pančić, and Nehemiah Grew. After him are Christen C. Raunkiær, Carl Alexander Clerck, Friedrich Boie, Antonio José Cavanilles, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Wilhelm Peters ranks 31. Before him are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Meade, Anthony Trollope, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Andrew Graham, and Charles Renouvier. After him are Ii Naosuke, Louise Rasmussen, Horace Wells, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, and Eugène Marin Labiche. Among people deceased in 1883, Wilhelm Peters ranks 28. Before him are Pierre Auguste Cot, Alexander Gorchakov, Peter Cooper, Friedrich von Flotow, Hendrik Conscience, and Franz Doppler. After him are Tự Đức, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Lucien Olivier, Edward FitzGerald, Jenny Longuet, and Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 2,245 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Wepper (1941), Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749), Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967), Rolf Stommelen (1943), Adelbert Schulz (1903), and Heinz Jost (1904). After him are Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1852), Adolph Diesterweg (1790), Aloysia Weber (1760), Friedrich Boie (1789), and Fabio Mancini (1987).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 62. Before him are Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Willi Hennig (1913), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), and Valerius Cordus (1515). After him are Friedrich Boie (1789), Moritz Wagner (1813), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), and Otto Kuntze (1843).

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