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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 158,211 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carl Peter Thunberg is the 98th most popular biologist (down from 68th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 107th in 2019) and the 4th 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 98 out of 841Before him are Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin. After him are Nikolay Pirogov, Philip Sclater, Hans Christian Gram, Martinus Beijerinck, Günter Blobel, and Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 12Before him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Toussaint Louverture, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. After him are Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Joseph Banks. Among people deceased in 1828, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 9Before him are Shaka, Maria Feodorovna, Victor of Aveyron, Alexander Ypsilantis, Jean-Antoine Houdon, and Franz Joseph Gall. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Kobayashi Issa, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, and Radama I.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 126 out of 1,612Before him are Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Björn Andrésen (1955), Ingrid Thulin (1926), Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912), and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934). After him are Sune Bergström (1916), Birgit Nilsson (1918), Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Gustav, Prince of Vasa (1799), Lennart Johansson (1929), and Charles VII of Sweden (1130).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Carl Peter Thunberg ranks 4Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Hugo Theorell (1903), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).