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Abram Petrovich Gannibal

1696 - 1781

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Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov (Russian: Абра́м Петро́вич Ганниба́л; c. 1696 – 14 May 1781), was a Russian Chief Military Engineer, General-in-Chief, and nobleman of African origin. Kidnapped and enslaved as a child by Ottomans, Gannibal was smuggled to Russia and presented as a gift to Peter the Great, where he was freed, adopted and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.Gannibal eventually rose to become a prominent member of the imperial court in the reign of Peter's daughter Elizabeth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abram Petrovich Gannibal has received more than 1,475,930 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Abram Petrovich Gannibal is the 27th most popular engineer, the 3rd most popular biography from Cameroon and the most popular Cameroonian Engineer.

Abram Petrovich Gannibal was a black man who was taken from his homeland of Africa to Russia as a slave. He was then freed and became an advisor to Peter the Great. He is most famous for being the first African in Russia.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Abram Petrovich Gannibal has had the most page views in the with 276,667 views, followed by English (180,944), and French (31,691). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (223.36%), Malagasy (61.19%), and Norwegian (Nynorsk) (42.46%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Abram Petrovich Gannibal ranks 27 out of 389. Before him are Jack Kilby, Jiro Horikoshi, Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, August Horch, and Willy Messerschmitt. After him are Philo of Byzantium, Lennart Torstensson, Hermann Oberth, Albert Göring, Theodore von Kármán, and Emil Škoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Abram Petrovich Gannibal ranks 5. Before him are Mahmud I, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Augustus III of Poland, and Alphonsus Liguori. After him are Maurice de Saxe, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Melchior Molter, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Francesca Cuzzoni. Among people deceased in 1781, Abram Petrovich Gannibal ranks 5. Before him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Túpac Amaru II, and Mariana Victoria of Spain. After him are Josef Mysliveček, Ablai Khan, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Faustina Bordoni, Túpac Katari, and John Needham.

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In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Abram Petrovich Gannibal ranks 3 out of 156. Before him are Paul Biya (1933), and Roger Milla (1952). After him are Samuel Eto'o (1981), Ahmadou Ahidjo (1924), Issa Hayatou (1946), Manu Dibango (1933), Thomas N'Kono (1956), André Onana (1996), Patrick M'Boma (1970), Marc-Vivien Foé (1975), and Achille Mbembe (1957).

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Among ENGINEERS In Cameroon

Among engineers born in Cameroon, Abram Petrovich Gannibal ranks 1. 

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