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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 34,003 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Otto Finsch is the 302nd most popular explorer (down from 257th in 2019), the 3,448th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,761st in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Otto Finsch ranks 302 out of 405. Before him are Pierre Poivre, Albert von Le Coq, Knut Haugland, Thekla Resvoll, Theodor Kotschy, and Sverre Hassel. After him are Hermann Wissmann, Irina Solovyova, Karl Maximovich, Friedrich Welwitsch, Humphrey Gilbert, and Kristian Prestrud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Otto Finsch ranks 55. Before him are Eduard Nápravník, Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Nelson A. Miles, Pascual Cervera y Topete, Luigi Capuana, and Harry Seeley. After him are Caterina Volpicelli, Friedrich Gernsheim, Calixto García, Georges Rayet, Gustave Trouvé, and Aleksandr Stoletov. Among people deceased in 1917, Otto Finsch ranks 72. Before him are Judith Gautier, Ber Borochov, Federico Zandomeneghi, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, Frances Xavier Cabrini, and Petter Adolf Karsten. After him are Ivan Aguéli, Frank Muller, Friedrich Robert Helmert, William Knox D'Arcy, Aurel Popovici, and José Enrique Rodó.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Finsch ranks 3,448 out of 6,142. Before him are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Heinrich Zille (1858), Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821), Uwe Boll (1965), Josef Frings (1887), and Woldemar, Prince of Lippe (1824). After him are Sarah Kirsch (1935), Mehmet Scholl (1970), John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596), Ulf Kirsten (1965), Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), and Hannes Löhr (1942).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Otto Finsch ranks 19. Before him are Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540), Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Ludwig Leichhardt (1813), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), and Albert von Le Coq (1860). After him are Hermann Wissmann (1853), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), Johannes Rebmann (1820), Carl Koldewey (1837), and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810).

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