BIOLOGIST

Anders Sparrman

1748 - 1820

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Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748 – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Sparrman has received more than 54,531 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anders Sparrman is the 349th most popular biologist (down from 319th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 351st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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  • 54.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anders Sparrman ranks 349 out of 1,097. Before him are Abraham Trembley, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, François-Alphonse Forel, Andrew Fire, Valerius Cordus, and Ivan Regen. After him are Carlo Allioni, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Fritz Müller, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Katsuko Saruhashi, and Louis Claude Richard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Anders Sparrman ranks 17. Before him are Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Adamantios Korais, Benedict Joseph Labre, and Dominique, comte de Cassini. After him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, John Playfair, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Martha Jefferson. Among people deceased in 1820, Anders Sparrman ranks 24. Before him are Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, Alexander Mackenzie, Nguyễn Du, and Daniel Boone. After him are Arthur Young, Benjamin West, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Gerhard von Kügelgen, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Antonín Vranický.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Sparrman ranks 359 out of 1,879. Before him are Tomas Brolin (1969), Maria Gripe (1923), Ola Ullsten (1931), Erik Nilsson (1916), Marika Green (1943), and Svante Nilsson (1460). After him are Ivan Eklind (1905), Kalle Svensson (1925), Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862), Noomi Rapace (1979), Thomas Ravelli (1959), and Sofia Helin (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Anders Sparrman ranks 12. Before him are Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Adam Afzelius (1750). After him are Daniel Solander (1733), Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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