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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

1852 - 1905

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Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (born Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà; 26 January 1852 – 14 September 1905) was an Italian-French explorer. With his family's financial help, he explored the Ogooué region of Central Africa, and later with the backing of the Société de Géographie de Paris, he reached far into the interior along the right bank of the Congo River. He has often been depicted as a man of friendly manner, great charm and peaceful approach towards the Africans he met and worked with on his journeys, but recent research has revealed that he in fact alternated this kind of approach with more calculated deceit and at times relentless armed violence towards local populations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza has received more than 315,194 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza is the 67th most popular explorer (up from 92nd in 2019), the 904th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,141st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Explorer.

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was a French explorer who was most famous for exploring the Congo River in Africa.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ranks 67 out of 498. Before him are Diogo Dias, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Davy Crockett, and Nikolay Przhevalsky. After him are John Davis, Xu Fu, Alonso de Ojeda, Willem Schouten, Jules Dumont d'Urville, and Richard Francis Burton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ranks 15. Before him are Henri Moissan, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Joseph Joffre, Francisco Tárrega, Charles Taze Russell, and William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. After him are Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Constantin Fehrenbach, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Alice Liddell, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, and H. H. Asquith. Among people deceased in 1905, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ranks 9. Before him are Muhammad Abduh, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernst Abbe, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Per Teodor Cleve, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia. After him are Louise Michel, Adolph Menzel, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Carl Wernicke, Albert Edelfelt, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ranks 904 out of 5,161. Before him are Alfonso II of Naples (1448), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Maurizio Sarri (1959), Richard Rogers (1933), Aristoxenus (-360), and Zeuxis (-500). After him are Giuseppe Guarneri (1698), Leonardo Vinci (1690), Baldassare Peruzzi (1481), Cola di Rienzo (1313), Michele Placido (1946), and Isabella Rossellini (1952).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ranks 7. Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Christopher Columbus (1451), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), John Cabot (1450), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), and Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778). After him are Sebastian Cabot (1484), Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Niccolò de' Conti (1395), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), and Alejandro Malaspina (1754).

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