Peter Ascanius

Peter Ascanius
Born	1723 Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
Died	1803 Copenhagen, Denmark
Citizenship	Norwegian
Fields	biologist
Academic advisors	Linnaeus

Peter Ascanius (May 24, 1723 – June 4, 1803) was a Norwegian biologist.

He was born at Aure in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was a student of Linnaeus. He taught zoology and mineralogy in Copenhagen from 1759 to 1771, and later worked as a supervisor at the mines in Kongsberg and elsewhere in Norway. Among his published works was the five-volume illustrated Icones rerum naturalium. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected in 1755 as a Foreign Member.

Ascanius first discovered the giant oarfish in 1772.

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