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Karl Weyprecht

1838 - 1881

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Karl Weyprecht, also spelt Carl Weyprecht, (8 September 1838 – 2 March 1881) was an Austro-Hungarian explorer. He was an officer (k.u.k. Linienschiffsleutnant) in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Weyprecht has received more than 69,563 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Karl Weyprecht is the 275th most popular explorer (down from 254th in 2019), the 3,181st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,937th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Explorer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Karl Weyprecht ranks 275 out of 498. Before him are Grigory Shelikhov, Juan Pizarro, Vladimir Atlasov, Humphrey Gilbert, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, and Georg August Wallin. After him are Nikolai Spathari, João da Nova, Richard Chancellor, João Fernandes Lavrador, Annie Londonderry, and Adolf Lüderitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Karl Weyprecht ranks 60. Before him are Joel Asaph Allen, Jules Dalou, Paolo Boselli, Szymon Winawer, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, and August Šenoa. After him are Henry Irving, Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso, Siegfried Bing, Emil Rathenau, Thomas Blake Glover, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1881, Karl Weyprecht ranks 52. Before him are Jacques Collin de Plancy, Jules Armand Dufaure, Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Jane Digby, Jim Bridger, and August Šenoa. After him are Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Konstantin Thon, Ambrose Burnside, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, and Tanaka Hisashige.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Weyprecht ranks 3,181 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Nissl (1860), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), Eric Braeden (1941), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1910), and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651). After him are Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Theo Jörgensmann (1948), Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), Adam Müller (1779), and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Karl Weyprecht ranks 14. Before him are Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), and Carl Peters (1856). After him are Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), and Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831).

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