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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-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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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Peter Forsskål ranks 226 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Peter Forsskål ranks 17Before 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 7Before 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.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Peter Forsskål ranks 68 out of 642Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Finland

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