Ferdinand von Wrangel
Explorer, Military Person
1796 – 1870
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Who was Ferdinand von Wrangel?
Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in Russian service, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as chief manager of the Russian-American Company, in fact governor of the Russian settlements in present day Alaska.
In English texts, Wrangel is sometimes spelled Vrangel, a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or Wrangell.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1796
Livonia - Also known as
- Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel
- Ethnicity
- Baltic Germans
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Profession
- Lived in
- Pskov
- Died
- Jun 6, 1870
Tartu
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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