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Georg August Wallin

1811 - 1852

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Georg August Wallin (also Yrjö Aukusti Wallin, a.k.a. Abd al-Wali; 24 October 1811 – 23 October 1852) was a Finnish orientalist, explorer and professor remembered for his journeys in South-West Asia during the 1840s. The Finnish translators of Wallin's letters state that Wallin has become a kind of "patron saint of Finnish oriental research". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg August Wallin has received more than 43,033 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg August Wallin is the 274th most popular explorer, the most popular biography from Åland Islands and the most popular Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Georg August Wallin ranks 274 out of 498. Before him are Paweł Strzelecki, Grigory Shelikhov, Juan Pizarro, Vladimir Atlasov, Humphrey Gilbert, and Johann Anton Güldenstädt. After him are Karl Weyprecht, Nikolai Spathari, João da Nova, Richard Chancellor, João Fernandes Lavrador, and Annie Londonderry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Georg August Wallin ranks 40. Before him are Raden Saleh, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, Karel Jaromír Erben, Karl Gutzkow, Émilie de Villeneuve, and Joseph Cafasso. After him are Peter Julian Eymard, William Robert Grove, Carl Johan Thyselius, John William Draper, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and J. C. Jacobsen. Among people deceased in 1852, Georg August Wallin ranks 38. Before him are Vincenzo Gioberti, Achille Richard, Louisa Adams, Augustus Pugin, Edward Bransfield, and Carl Borivoj Presl. After him are James Pradier, Georg von Langsdorff, Bernardino Drovetti, Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, John Lloyd Stephens, and Eugène Burnouf.

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In Åland Islands

Among people born in Åland Islands, Georg August Wallin ranks 1 out of 4. After him are Henrik Klingenberg (1978), Janne Holmén (1977), and Daniel Sjölund (1983).

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Among EXPLORERS In Åland Islands

Among explorers born in Åland Islands, Georg August Wallin ranks 1. 

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