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Otto Finsch

1839 - 1917

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Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate. He also wrote on the people of New Guinea and was involved in plans for German colonization in Southeast Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Finsch has received more than 36,564 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Otto Finsch is the 285th most popular explorer (up from 301st in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 3,445th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Otto Finsch ranks 285 out of 498. Before him are João Fernandes Lavrador, Annie Londonderry, Adolf Lüderitz, Charles Wilkes, Ada Blackjack, and Wilfred Thesiger. After him are Freya Stark, Aleksei Chirikov, Henricus Martellus Germanus, Douglas Mawson, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, and Eusebio Kino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Otto Finsch ranks 50. Before him are Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Francis Garnier, Pōmare V, Hermann Hankel, Nikolai Linevich, and Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Bernardino Caballero, Gustave Trouvé, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Carl Humann, Jane Morris, and Eduard Nápravník. Among people deceased in 1917, Otto Finsch ranks 66. Before him are Enric Prat de la Riba, Andrew Taylor Still, Marian Smoluchowski, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Ber Borochov, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. After him are Titu Maiorescu, Werner Voss, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Federico Zandomeneghi, and Judith Gautier.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Finsch ranks 683 out of 1,694. Before him are Edward Lasker (1885), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Samuel Eilenberg (1913), Moritz Pasch (1843), Remus von Woyrsch (1847), and Alfred Pringsheim (1850). After him are Dorothea of Montau (1347), Louis Marcoussis (1878), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), Wojciech Szczęsny (1990), and Bronisława Wajs (1908).

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Among EXPLORERS In Poland

Among explorers born in Poland, Otto Finsch ranks 3. Before him are Emin Pasha (1840), and Paweł Strzelecki (1797). After him are Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Theodor Kotschy (1813), Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (1936), and Marek Kamiński (1964).

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