1856 - 1918
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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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.
1603 - 1671
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 247
1790 - 1855
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 248
1529 - 1610
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 249
1754 - 1803
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 250
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 251
1723 - 1805
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 252
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 253
1893 - 1993
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 254
1838 - 1881
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 255
1484 - 1538
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 256
1797 - 1873
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 257
1645 - 1711
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 258
1884 - 1960
HPI: 51.82
Rank: 259
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.
1856 - 1927
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 60
1856 - 1929
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 61
1856 - 1940
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 62
1856 - 1909
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 63
1856 - 1919
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 64
1856 - 1923
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 65
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 66
1856 - 1915
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 67
1856 - 1909
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 68
1856 - 1921
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 69
1856 - 1914
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 70
1856 - 1920
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 71
1856 - 1919
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 72
1885 - 1918
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 96
1845 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 97
1887 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 98
1876 - 1918
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 99
1895 - 1918
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 100
1857 - 1918
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 101
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 102
1865 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 103
1854 - 1918
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 104
1869 - 1918
HPI: 51.91
Rank: 105
1839 - 1918
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 106
1838 - 1918
HPI: 51.44
Rank: 107
1893 - 1918
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 108
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).
1940 - 1970
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 2,917
1185 - 1225
HPI: 52.09
Rank: 2,918
1819 - 1904
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 2,919
1918 - 2015
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 2,920
1868 - 1919
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 2,921
1878 - 1952
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,922
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 2,923
1687 - 1763
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 2,924
1879 - 1937
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 2,925
1919 - 2004
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 2,926
1723 - 1799
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,927
1617 - 1668
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 2,928
1936 - 1999
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 2,929
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).
1873 - 1969
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 8
1834 - 1885
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 9
1783 - 1835
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 10
1877 - 1957
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 11
1505 - 1542
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 12
1540 - Present
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 13
1856 - 1918
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 14
1838 - 1881
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 15
1813 - 1848
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 16
1834 - 1886
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 17
1860 - 1930
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 18
1839 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 19
1853 - 1905
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 20