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Carl Peters

1856 - 1918

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Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918) was a German explorer and colonial administrator. He was a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of the modern republic Tanzania) and one of the founders of the German East Africa Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Peters has received more than 193,198 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl Peters is the 253rd most popular explorer (down from 248th in 2019), the 2,923rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,736th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Explorer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Carl Peters ranks 253 out of 405. Before him are Yerofey Khabarov, William Parry, Anthony Jenkinson, Nicolas Baudin, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, and Pehr Osbeck. After him are Freya Stark, Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, Paweł Strzelecki, Eusebio Kino, and Roy Chapman Andrews.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl Peters ranks 66. Before him are Louise Catherine Breslau, José Batlle y Ordóñez, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Giuseppe Martucci, Alexander Izvolsky, and Semyon Alapin. After him are Booker T. Washington, Karl Krumbacher, Eduardo Dato, Yu Kil-chun, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, and Vasily Rozanov. Among people deceased in 1918, Carl Peters ranks 102. Before him are Noman Çelebicihan, Ivan Puluj, Arthur Cravan, Meshadi Azizbekov, Trifko Grabež, and Simon Hollósy. After him are Édouard Chavannes, Konstantin Jireček, Robbie Ross, George Mary Searle, Marianne Cope, and Wilfred Owen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 2,923 out of 6,142. Before him are Isdal Woman (1940), Engelbert II of Berg (1185), Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819), Hermann Zapf (1918), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), and Max Dehn (1878). After him are Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1687), Alfred Abel (1879), Werner Goldberg (1919), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), and Reiner Klimke (1936).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 14. Before him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Julius Klaproth (1783), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), and Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540). After him are Karl Weyprecht (1838), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Otto Finsch (1839), and Hermann Wissmann (1853).

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