Alexander Keyserling
Geologist, Deceased Person
1815 – 1891
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Who was Alexander Keyserling?
Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur, Graf von Keyserling was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist. A member of the Keyserlingk clan, a wealthy aristocratic Baltic German family, he is considered to be one of the founders of Russian geology, making many expeditions on behalf of his close personal friend and friend of the family, Tsar Nicholas I.
He was also a botanist and zoologist who wrote Die wirbelthiere Europa's with Johann Heinrich Blasius. This work was published in 1840.
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