BIOLOGIST

Carl Peter Thunberg

1743 - 1828

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Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Peter Thunberg has received more than 172,260 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Carl Peter Thunberg is the 139th most popular biologist (down from 97th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 125th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Biologist.

Carl Peter Thunberg was a Swedish botanist who traveled to Japan in 1775 and brought back many new plant species to Europe.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 139 out of 1,097. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries, E. O. Wilson, Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, and John Ray. After him are Hamilton O. Smith, Mario Capecchi, William Carey, J. Michael Bishop, William Bateson, and Emmanuelle Charpentier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 13. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, and Nicolai Abildgaard. After him are Edmund Cartwright, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Joseph Banks. Among people deceased in 1828, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 12. Before him are Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Kobayashi Issa, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Karl Mack von Leiberich. After him are Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, Sineperver Sultan, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Radama I, and Charlotte Buff.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 158 out of 1,879. Before him are Franz Berwald (1796), Inger Nilsson (1959), Emund the Old (1030), Ulf Kristersson (1963), Tomas Lindahl (1938), and Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846). After him are Oscar Montelius (1843), Gustaf de Laval (1845), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Ellen Key (1849), John Bauer (1882), and Margaret Leijonhufvud (1516).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 6. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Hugo Theorell (1903), Svante Pääbo (1955), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), and Anders Sparrman (1748).

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