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Pehr Osbeck

1723 - 1805

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Pehr Osbeck (1723 – 23 December 1805) was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pehr Osbeck has received more than 34,830 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Pehr Osbeck is the 239th most popular explorer (up from 251st in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 387th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Explorer.

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  • 53.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pehr Osbeck ranks 239 out of 498. Before him are Yerofey Khabarov, Ohthere of Hålogaland, Wulfstan of Hedeby, Jan Czerski, Pedro Cieza de León, and Yuri Lisyansky. After him are Eduard von Toll, Grigory Potanin, Nikolaus Federmann, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and Lady Hester Stanhope.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Pehr Osbeck ranks 20. Before him are Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Mir Taqi Mir, Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Antoine Louis. After him are William Blackstone, Marcus Elieser Bloch, William Chambers, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, and John Byron. Among people deceased in 1805, Pehr Osbeck ranks 15. Before him are Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Conrad Moench, and Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pehr Osbeck ranks 371 out of 1,879. Before him are Sofia Helin (1972), Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805), Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1753), Monica Zetterlund (1937), Gustav Cassel (1866), and Ebba Brahe (1596). After him are Gustav Trolle (1488), Fredrik Reinfeldt (1965), Björn Nordqvist (1942), Daniel Solander (1733), Carl Gustaf von Rosen (1909), and Kennet Andersson (1967).

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Among EXPLORERS In Sweden

Among explorers born in Sweden, Pehr Osbeck ranks 3. Before him are Sven Hedin (1865), and Salomon August Andrée (1854). After him are Oscar Dickson (1823), and Charles John Andersson (1827).

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