BIOLOGIST

Pehr Kalm

1716 - 1779

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Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus. In 1747, he was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to travel to the North American colonies in order to bring back seeds and plants that might be useful to agriculture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pehr Kalm has received more than 87,456 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pehr Kalm is the 419th most popular biologist (down from 357th in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 378th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pehr Kalm ranks 419 out of 1,097. Before him are John Needham, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Guillaume Rondelet, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, and George Robert Waterhouse. After him are William Speirs Bruce, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Lucien Quélet, Juan Ignacio Molina, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Frédéric Cuvier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Pehr Kalm ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Yuan Mei, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Thomas Gray, and Luis Egidio Meléndez. After him are Eugenios Voulgaris, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and Otto von Münchhausen. Among people deceased in 1779, Pehr Kalm ranks 16. Before him are Tommaso Traetta, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, William Boyce, Louis de Jaucourt, Kosmas the Aetolian, and Alessandro Albani. After him are Claude Bourgelat, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Johannes Burman, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, and Thomas Hudson.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pehr Kalm ranks 416 out of 1,879. Before him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889), Sven Tumba (1931), Ralf Edström (1952), Klas Lestander (1931), Johan Tobias Sergel (1740), and Esaias Tegnér (1782). After him are Joe Hill (1879), Lars Norén (1944), Åsa Larsson (1966), Princess Sophia of Sweden (1547), Stefan Johansson (1956), and Ernst Trygger (1857).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Pehr Kalm ranks 15. Before him are Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), Anders Sparrman (1748), Daniel Solander (1733), and Peter Artedi (1705). After him are Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Olof Swartz (1760), Anders Dahl (1751), and Charles De Geer (1720).

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