BIOLOGIST

Peter Artedi

1705 - 1735

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Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (27 February 1705 – 28 September 1735) was a Swedish naturalist who is known as the "father of ichthyology". Artedi was born in Anundsjö in the province of Ångermanland. Intending to become a clergyman, he went after schooling in Härnösand, in 1724, to study theology at Uppsala University, but he turned his attention to medicine and natural history, especially ichthyology, a science that he influenced greatly. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Artedi has received more than 62,479 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Artedi is the 409th most popular biologist (up from 411th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 422nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Artedi ranks 409 out of 1,097. Before him are Marie Stopes, Carl Borivoj Presl, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emil Christian Hansen, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, and Karl Eichwald. After him are C. L. Gloger, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Johann Jakob Heckel, John Needham, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Guillaume Rondelet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Peter Artedi ranks 10. Before him are Leopold Joseph von Daun, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Charles-André van Loo, David Hartley, Jacques-François Blondel, and Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. After him are Philipp Stamma, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Davit Guramishvili, and Dick Turpin. Among people deceased in 1735, Peter Artedi ranks 14. Before him are Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Robert de Cotte, Carlo Ruzzini, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Petr Brandl, and Johann Krieger. After him are George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Jacob Bruce, Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark, and John Arbuthnot.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Peter Artedi ranks 409 out of 1,879. Before him are Dead (1969), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), Avicii (1989), Pia Sundhage (1960), Slim Borgudd (1946), and Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874). After him are Bernhard Karlgren (1889), Sven Tumba (1931), Ralf Edström (1952), Klas Lestander (1931), Johan Tobias Sergel (1740), and Esaias Tegnér (1782).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Peter Artedi ranks 14. Before him are Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Daniel Solander (1733). After him are Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Olof Swartz (1760), and Anders Dahl (1751).

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