1732 - 1763
Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish 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 87,745 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Peter Forsskål is the 226th most popular biologist (up from 297th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Finland (up from 86th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Biologist.
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Among biologists, Peter Forsskål ranks 226 out of 841. Before him are Erik Acharius, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Adolf Engler, Eva Ekeblad, Bruce Beutler, and H. Robert Horvitz. After him are John Lindley, Francisco Varela, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Craig Venter, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Christen C. Raunkiær.
1757 - 1819
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 220
1765 - 1812
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 221
1844 - 1930
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 222
1724 - 1786
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 223
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 224
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 225
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 226
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 227
1946 - 2001
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 228
1748 - 1831
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 229
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 230
1771 - 1853
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 231
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 232
Among people born in 1732, Peter Forsskål ranks 17. Before him are Adélaïde of France, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Christoph Adelung, John Dickinson, Warren Hastings, and Carl Gotthard Langhans. After him are Joseph Gaertner, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Hieronymus von Colloredo, Joseph von Sonnenfels, František Brixi, and Nevil Maskelyne. Among people deceased in 1763, Peter Forsskål ranks 7. Before him are Augustus III of Poland, Princess Isabella of Parma, Antoine François Prévost, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Cao Xueqin, and Pierre de Marivaux. After him are Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Marco Foscarini, and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
1732 - 1800
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 11
1732 - 1797
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 12
1732 - 1806
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 13
1732 - 1808
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 14
1732 - 1818
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 15
1732 - 1808
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 16
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 17
1732 - 1791
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 18
1732 - 1776
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 19
1732 - 1812
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 20
1732 - 1817
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 21
1732 - 1771
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 22
1732 - 1811
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 23
1696 - 1763
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 1
1741 - 1763
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 2
1697 - 1763
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 3
1722 - 1763
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 4
1724 - 1763
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 5
1688 - 1763
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 6
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 7
1673 - 1763
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 8
1724 - 1763
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 9
1711 - 1763
HPI: 52.45
Rank: 10
1719 - 1763
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 11
1696 - 1763
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 12
1687 - 1763
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 13
Among people born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 68 out of 642. Before him are Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Wäinö Aaltonen (1894), Bengt Holmström (1949), Ville Ritola (1896), Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), and Eino Leino (1878). After him are Clas Thunberg (1893), Leif Segerstam (1944), Paavo Lipponen (1941), Minna Canth (1844), Edvard Westermarck (1862), and Jaakko Hintikka (1929).
1928 - 2016
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 62
1894 - 1966
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 63
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 64
1896 - 1982
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 65
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 66
1878 - 1926
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 67
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 68
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 69
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 70
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 71
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 72
1862 - 1939
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 73
1929 - 2015
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 74
Among biologists born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 1. After him are Alexander von Nordmann (1803), Petter Adolf Karsten (1834), and Christian von Steven (1781).
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 1
1803 - 1866
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3
1781 - 1863
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 4