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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