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See also:PETER See also:FORSKAL (1736-1763) , See also:Swedish traveller and naturalist, was See also:born in See also:Kalmar in 1736 . He studied at See also:Gottingen, where he published a dissertation entitledDubia de principiis philosophiae recentioris (1756) . Thence he returned to his native See also: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 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 and . See also:Egypt in 1761 . He died of the See also:plague at Jerim. in Arabia on the 11th of See also:July 1763 . His friend and See also: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 appeared also his See also:account of the See also:plants of Arabia See also:Felix and of See also:lower Egypt, under the See also:title of See also:Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabic¢ . |
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