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Peter Andreas Hansen

1795 - 1874

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Peter Andreas Hansen (born 8 December 1795, Tønder, Schleswig, Denmark; died 28 March 1874, Gotha, Thuringia, Germany) was a Danish-born German astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Andreas Hansen has received more than 52,515 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Peter Andreas Hansen is the 198th most popular astronomer (down from 148th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 186th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 198 out of 644. Before him are Liisi Oterma, Eleanor F. Helin, Andreas Cellarius, Francis Baily, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, and Martin Schwarzschild. After him are Jeremiah Horrocks, Bernard Lyot, Seth Barnes Nicholson, John Stanley Plaskett, Margherita Hack, and Mashallah ibn Athari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 27. Before him are Heinrich Marschner, Vincent Pallotti, James Barry, Augustin Thierry, Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, and Maria Schicklgruber. After him are Antoine-Louis Barye, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Ghazi Muhammad, Anton Schindler, James Braid, and Policarpa Salavarrieta. Among people deceased in 1874, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 24. Before him are Hans Christian Lumbye, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Peter Cornelius, Howard Staunton, Ilija Garašanin, and Countess of Ségur. After him are Otto Hesse, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Niccolò Tommaseo, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Louise Rasmussen, and Ang Mey.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 218 out of 1,032. Before him are Jacob Gade (1879), Rorik of Dorestad (900), Kurt Westergaard (1935), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), and King Diamond (1956). After him are Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden (1768), Herman Bang (1857), Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621), Kenneth Zohore (1994), Kaj Munk (1898), and Christian Mortensen (1882).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Denmark

Among astronomers born in Denmark, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 4. Before him are Ole Rømer (1644), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852). After him are Richard Martin West (1941), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Holger Thiele (1878), Julie Vinter Hansen (1890), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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