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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 59,588 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Wilhelm Peters is the 286th most popular biologist (down from 272nd in 2019), the 2,337th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,202nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 54.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Peters ranks 286 out of 841. Before him are Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Vladimir Demikhov, and Pierre Edmond Boissier. After him are Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, Othenio Abel, René Louiche Desfontaines, Josif Pančić, and Carol W. Greider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Wilhelm Peters ranks 28. Before him are Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugène Marin Labiche, Alexander von Middendorff, and John A. Macdonald. After him are Ii Naosuke, Horace Wells, Ang Mey, James Curtis Hepburn, Louis Le Chatelier, and Robert Remak. Among people deceased in 1883, Wilhelm Peters ranks 28. Before him are Tự Đức, Sojourner Truth, Pertevniyal Sultan, Franz Doppler, Arnold Toynbee, and Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha. After him are Ciprian Porumbescu, Iwakura Tomomi, Hendrik Conscience, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Filippo Pacini, and Juliette Drouet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 2,337 out of 6,142. Before him are Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Karl Brugmann (1849), Mario Gómez (1985), Paul de Lagarde (1827), Eric Braeden (1941), and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745). After him are Edmund Stoiber (1941), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Ulrich Graf (1878), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), Gundula Janowitz (1937), and Rahel Varnhagen (1771).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Peters ranks 48. Before him are Fritz Müller (1822), Valerius Cordus (1515), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802). After him are Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), Karl Möbius (1825), Theodor Boveri (1862), Lorenz Oken (1779), and Albert Günther (1830).

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