BIOLOGIST

Peter Forsskål

1732 - 1763

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Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Forsskål has received more than 95,056 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Peter Forsskål is the 272nd most popular biologist (down from 225th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Finland (down from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Biologist.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Forsskål ranks 272 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, Francis Darwin, David Julius, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Christen C. Raunkiær. After him are Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, and René Louiche Desfontaines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Peter Forsskål ranks 17. Before him are Richard Arkwright, Abbas III, John Dickinson, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Carl Gotthard Langhans, and Warren Hastings. After him are Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Hieronymus von Colloredo, František Brixi, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Nevil Maskelyne, and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Among people deceased in 1763, Peter Forsskål ranks 8. Before him are Princess Isabella of Parma, Cao Xueqin, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Antoine François Prévost, Pierre de Marivaux, and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Gabriela Silang, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Johann Theodor of Bavaria.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 78 out of 751. Before him are Juhani Aho (1861), Aarre Merikanto (1893), Leif Segerstam (1944), Paavo Lipponen (1941), Petteri Orpo (1969), and Ernst Linder (1868). After him are Pekka Haavisto (1958), Henri Toivonen (1956), Jarno Saarinen (1945), Edvard Westermarck (1862), Matthias Castrén (1813), and Clas Thunberg (1893).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Finland

Among biologists born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 1. After him are Alexander von Nordmann (1803), Christian von Steven (1781), Petter Adolf Karsten (1834), and Ilkka Hanski (1953).

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