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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 31,636 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Pehr Osbeck is the 252nd most popular explorer (down from 211th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 340th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pehr Osbeck ranks 252 out of 405Before him are Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Yerofey Khabarov, William Parry, Anthony Jenkinson, Nicolas Baudin, and Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser. After him are Carl Peters, Freya Stark, Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, Paweł Strzelecki, and Eusebio Kino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Pehr Osbeck ranks 23Before him are Princess Mary of Great Britain, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, John Byron, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, William Chambers, and William Blackstone. After him are Marcus Elieser Bloch, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, William Livingston, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, and Richard Price. Among people deceased in 1805, Pehr Osbeck ranks 17Before him are Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Conrad Moench. After him are William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Thomas Wedgwood.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pehr Osbeck ranks 388 out of 1,612Before him are Gustav Cassel (1866), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Kalle Svensson (1925), Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911), and Daniel Solander (1733). After him are Estrid of the Obotrites (979), Johan Helmich Roman (1694), Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750), Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805), Lennart Nilsson (1922), and Sven Lindqvist (1932).

Among EXPLORERS In Sweden

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