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PETER FORSKAL (1736-1763)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 673 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER
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FORSKAL (1736-1763)  ,
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Swedish traveller and naturalist, was
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born in
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Kalmar in 1736 . He studied at
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Gottingen, where he published a dissertation entitledDubia de principiis philosophiae recentioris (1756) . Thence he returned to his native
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country,. which, however, he had to leave after the publica. tion of a pamphlet entitled Pensees sur la liberte civile(1759) . By
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Linnaeus he was recommended to
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Frederick V. of
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Denmark. who appointed him to accompany Carsten
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Niebuhr in an expedition to
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Arabia and .
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Egypt in 1761 . He died of the
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plague at Jerim. in Arabia on the 11th of
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July 1763 . His friend and
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companion, Niebuhr, was entrusted with the care of editing his
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MSS., and published iq 1775 Descriptions animalium, avium, amphibiorum, pisciuni, inseclorum, vermium, quae in itin . Orient. observant Petrus Fors/nil . In the same
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year appeared also his
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account of the
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plants of Arabia
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Felix and of
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lower Egypt, under the
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title of
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Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabic¢ .

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