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FORSKAL, PETER (1736-1763)

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FORSKAL, PETER (1736-1763)

FORSKAL, See also:
PETER
PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
PETER (PEDRO)
PETER, EPISTLES OF
PETER, ST
PETER (1736-1763) , See also:

SWEDISH

Swedish traveller and naturalist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

KALMAR (CALMAR)

Kalmar in 1736. He studied at See also:

GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, where he published a dissertation entitledDubia de principiis philosophiae recentioris (1756). Thence he returned to his native See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country,. which, however, he had to leave after the publica. tion of a pamphlet entitled Pensees sur la liberte civile(1759). By See also:

LINNAEUS

Linnaeus he was recommended to See also:

Frederick V. of See also:

Denmark. who appointed him to accompany Carsten See also:

Niebuhr in an expedition to See also:

ARABIA

Arabia and. See also:

EGYPT

Egypt in 1761. He died of the See also:

PLAGUE (in Gr. Xotµos; in Lat. pestis, pestilentia)

plague at Jerim. in Arabia on the 11th of See also:

JULY

July 1763. His friend and See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion, Niebuhr, was entrusted with the care of editing his See also:

MSS., and published iq 1775 Descriptions animalium, avium, amphibiorum, pisciuni, inseclorum, vermium, quae in itin. Orient. observant Petrus Fors/nil. In the same See also:

YEAR

year appeared also his See also:

account of the See also:

PLANTS

plants of Arabia See also:

Felix and of See also:

LOWER

lower Egypt, under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

FLORA

Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabic¢.

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