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