Peter Forsskål [SEP] date of birth
Peter Forsskål
Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Early life.
Forsskål was born in Helsinki in Finland (then a part of Sweden) where his father, Johannes Forsskål, served as a clergyman at the time, but came to Sweden in 1741 when the father received the parish of in Uppland (and the archdiocese of Uppsala)
's 1962 documentary novel "Det lykkelige Arabien" (literally, Arabia Felix). In Hansen's book, Frederik von Haven is selfish, cowardly and lazy. He constantly tried to undermine the scholarly work which Forsskål and Niebuhr in particular are endeavouring to do. This stems from Hansen's interpretation of the sources; his main sources were two biographies of Forsskål, Carl Christensen's "Naturforskeren Pehr Forsskål" (1918) and Henrik Schück's "Från Linnés tid. Peter Forsskål" (1923). These are both very