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Paweł Strzelecki

1797 - 1873

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Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw ˈɛdmunt stʂɛˈlɛt͡skʲi]; 20 July 1797 – 6 October 1873), also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki and Sir Paul Strzelecki, was a Polish explorer, geologist, humanitarian, environmentalist, nobleman, scientist, businessman and philanthropist who in 1845 also became a British subject. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paweł Strzelecki has received more than 164,287 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Paweł Strzelecki is the 268th most popular explorer (down from 256th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Poland (down from 634th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Paweł Strzelecki ranks 268 out of 498Before him are Jim Bridger, Anthony Jenkinson, Willem de Vlamingh, Isidore of Charax, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and Ippolito Rosellini. After him are Grigory Shelikhov, Juan Pizarro, Vladimir Atlasov, Humphrey Gilbert, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, and Georg August Wallin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Paweł Strzelecki ranks 55Before him are El Hadj Umar Tall, Karl Otfried Müller, Henry E. Steinway, Innocent of Alaska, Gotthilf Hagen, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu. After him are Ramón Castilla, Heinrich Kuhl, Anthony Panizzi, Michel Garicoïts, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Mariano Paredes. Among people deceased in 1873, Paweł Strzelecki ranks 41Before him are Giovanni Battista Donati, Louis Le Chatelier, Bénédict Morel, Francis Garnier, Hermann Hankel, and Malek Jahan Khanom. After him are Auguste von Harrach, Caterina Scarpellini, Mary Ann Cotton, Auguste Couder, Edward Blyth, and Edwin Landseer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paweł Strzelecki ranks 656 out of 1,694Before him are Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), C. L. Gloger (1803), Aaron Kosminski (1865), Władysław Żmuda (1954), and Jan Tomaszewski (1948). After him are Heinrich George (1893), George I, Duke of Pomerania (1493), Nathan Alterman (1910), Erich Abraham (1895), Władysław Odonic (1190), and Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896).

Among EXPLORERS In Poland

Among explorers born in Poland, Paweł Strzelecki ranks 2Before him are Emin Pasha (1840). After him are Otto Finsch (1839), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Theodor Kotschy (1813), Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz (1936), and Marek Kamiński (1964).