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Christian August Friedrich Peters

1806 - 1880

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Christian August Friedrich Peters (7 September 1806 – 8 May 1880) was a German astronomer. He was the father of astronomer Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian August Friedrich Peters has received more than 19,900 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Christian August Friedrich Peters is the 381st most popular astronomer (down from 358th in 2019), the 3,979th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,517th in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Christian August Friedrich Peters ranks 381 out of 531. Before him are Harry Edwin Wood, Frank Elmore Ross, Harold Spencer Jones, Benjamin Markarian, Dorothea Klumpke, and Catherine Cesarsky. After him are Henry E. Holt, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Zdeňka Vávrová, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Gottfried Kirch, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Christian August Friedrich Peters ranks 42. Before him are Friedrich Welwitsch, Georg Adolf Erman, Michele Amari, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Gaetano Bedini, and Ivan Kireyevsky. After him are George Newbold Lawrence, Émile Souvestre, Henry Kellett, Jane Pierce, Pascual Madoz, and Gennaios Kolokotronis. Among people deceased in 1880, Christian August Friedrich Peters ranks 49. Before him are Benjamin Peirce, Nils Johan Andersson, Izmail Sreznevsky, Napoléon Henri Reber, Karl von Holtei, and William Hallowes Miller. After him are Martin Gropius, Cándido Bareiro, Heinrich von Gagern, Sabin Berthelot, Thomas Bell, and Thrasyvoulos Zaimis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian August Friedrich Peters ranks 3,979 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954), Anneliese Rothenberger (1926), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Ole Borch (1626), Fredric Wertham (1895), and Wolf Kahler (1940). After him are Felix Jacoby (1876), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Kurt Beck (1949), Johann von Rist (1607), E. A. Dupont (1891), and Klaus Badelt (1967).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Christian August Friedrich Peters ranks 57. Before him are Gustav Spörer (1822), Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke (1835), Joseph Helffrich (1890), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Paul Götz (1883), and Otto Heckmann (1901). After him are Gottfried Kirch (1639), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Lutz D. Schmadel (1942), Richard Schorr (1867), Leo Anton Karl de Ball (1853), and Friedrich Tietjen (1834).

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