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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 207,274 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carl Peters is the 259th most popular explorer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 3,037th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,920th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Explorer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Carl Peters ranks 259 out of 498. Before him are Snorri Thorfinnsson, Carl Anton Larsen, Hjalmar Johansen, William Smith, Pierre Poivre, and Jens Munk. After him are Oscar Wisting, Francis Garnier, Jim Bridger, Anthony Jenkinson, Willem de Vlamingh, and Isidore of Charax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Carl Peters ranks 67. Before him are Karl Lamprecht, Princess Isabella of Croÿ, Ernst Brenner, Alexander Izvolsky, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, and Rudolf Stammler. After him are Eduardo Dato, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Semyon Alapin, Wojciech Kossak, Vasily Rozanov, and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. Among people deceased in 1918, Carl Peters ranks 105. Before him are George Mary Searle, Prince Mirko of Montenegro, Anna Demidova, Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt, Arthur Cravan, and Charles Wolf. After him are Meshadi Azizbekov, Ivan Puluj, Wilfred Owen, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and Malak Hifni Nasif.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 3,037 out of 7,253. Before him are John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and Marcel Ophüls (1927). After him are Peter Stein (1937), Karlheinz Förster (1958), Horst Szymaniak (1934), Fritz Bleyl (1880), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), and Otto Ciliax (1891).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Carl Peters ranks 13. Before him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505). After him are Karl Weyprecht (1838), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), and Ludwig Leichhardt (1813).

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