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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 57,631 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Peter Artedi is the 412th most popular biologist (up from 487th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 467th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Artedi ranks 412 out of 841. Before him are William Curtis, Adolf Mayer, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Matthias de l'Obel, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, and Louis Claude Richard. After him are Henrik Steffens, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Svante Pääbo, Johan Peter Falk, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, and Martha Chase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Peter Artedi ranks 9. Before him are Karim Khan Zand, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Charles-André van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, David Hartley, and Jacques-François Blondel. After him are Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Philipp Stamma, Davit Guramishvili, Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Dick Turpin. Among people deceased in 1735, Peter Artedi ranks 13. Before him are Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje, Robert de Cotte, Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Carlo Ruzzini, and Johann Krieger. After him are Petr Brandl, 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 423 out of 1,612. Before him are Gunilla Bergström (1942), Amalia Lindegren (1814), Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883), Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Bernhard Karlgren (1889), and Gösta Ekman (1890). After him are Jan Eliasson (1940), Ernst Josephson (1851), Svante Pääbo (1955), Arvid Lindman (1862), John Ljunggren (1919), and Nils von Kantzow (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Peter Artedi ranks 17. Before him are Anders Sparrman (1748), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Pehr Kalm (1716), Daniel Solander (1733), Anders Dahl (1751), and Olof Swartz (1760). After him are Svante Pääbo (1955), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801).

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