BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Peters

1815 - 1883

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Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Peters has received more than 64,226 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Wilhelm Peters is the 281st most popular biologist (up from 285th in 2019), the 2,199th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,335th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Peters ranks 281 out of 1,097. Before him are Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, René Louiche Desfontaines, George Bentham, and Salim Ali. After him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, David Baltimore, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, and Josif Pančić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Wilhelm Peters ranks 27. Before him are Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Anthony Trollope, Eugène Marin Labiche, and Andrew Graham. After him are Horace Wells, George Meade, Ii Naosuke, Alexander von Middendorff, James Curtis Hepburn, and Jean-Delphin Alard. Among people deceased in 1883, Wilhelm Peters ranks 28. Before him are Édouard Roche, Friedrich von Flotow, Pierre Auguste Cot, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Édouard René de Laboulaye, and Lucien Olivier. After him are Cyprian Norwid, Franz Doppler, Iwakura Tomomi, Arnold Toynbee, Hendrik Conscience, and Edward FitzGerald.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 2,199 out of 7,253. Before him are Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Helmut Walcha (1907), Ludwig Uhland (1787), Anton Praetorius (1560), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1337), and Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1284). After him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden (1906), Albert Forster (1902), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Werner Krauss (1884), Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), and Joachim Streich (1951).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 45. Before him are Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), and Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802). After him are Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Hieronymus Bock (1498), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Otto Brunfels (1488), and Friedrich Loeffler (1852).

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