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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 49,076 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Andreas Hansen is the 148th most popular astronomer (down from 144th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 180th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Astronomer.

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  • 56.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 148 out of 531. Before him are Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Maria Mitchell, Annie Jump Cannon, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, and Giovanni Battista Hodierna. After him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Hermann Carl Vogel, Bernard Lyot, George Phillips Bond, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 22. Before him are Johns Hopkins, Vincent Pallotti, Hadji Murad, Maria Schicklgruber, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Heinrich Marschner. After him are Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Augustin Thierry, Anselme Payen, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and Antoine-Louis Barye. Among people deceased in 1874, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 19. Before him are Marià Fortuny, Josiah Warren, Moritz von Jacobi, Constantin von Tischendorf, Charles Gleyre, and Peter Cornelius. After him are Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Countess of Ségur, Howard Staunton, Ilija Garašanin, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and Hans Christian Lumbye.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Peter Andreas Hansen ranks 187 out of 893. Before him are Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (1943), Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (1935), Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), Princess Louise of Denmark (1750), August Bournonville (1805), and Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1765). After him are Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545), Edvard Eriksen (1876), Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine (1520), and Jan Gehl (1936).

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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 Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Richard Martin West (1941), Holger Thiele (1878), and Anja Cetti Andersen (1965).

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