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Gustav Nachtigal

German physician, consul-general and explorer of Central and West Africa

1834 - 1885

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His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Gustav Nachtigal is the 174th most popular explorer (down from 165th in 2024), the 1,997th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,938th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Explorer.

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Gustav Nachtigal's biography spans 27 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 63.87.

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Among Explorers

Among explorers, Gustav Nachtigal ranks 174 out of 500. Before him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Paulo da Gama, and Gaspar de Lemos. After him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Carsten Borchgrevink, António de Abreu, Henri Mouhot, Lancelotto Malocello, and Edward Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Gustav Nachtigal ranks 30. Before him are Kawakami Gensai, Gaston Planté, Julia Pastrana, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and Heinrich von Treitschke. After him are Viktor Hartmann, Herman Snellen, Lev Ivanov, Ludovic Halévy, José Hernández, and Paul Kummer. Among people deceased in 1885, Gustav Nachtigal ranks 25. Before him are Ferdinand Hiller, Henri Milne-Edwards, Iwasaki Yatarō, Moses Montefiore, Zuo Zongtang, and Aga Khan II. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Louis Riel, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, and Thomas A. Hendricks.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Nachtigal ranks 1,997 out of 8,184. Before him are Lilly Reich (1885), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1891), Otto Brunfels (1488), and Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923). After him are Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769), Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Naumann (1860), Oswald Boelcke (1891), Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark (1808), and Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200).

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Among Explorers In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Gustav Nachtigal ranks 7. Before him are Martin Behaim (1459), Heinrich Barth (1821), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Adam Olearius (1603), and Hans Staden (1525). After him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Julius Klaproth (1783), and Karl Weyprecht (1838).

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