Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

Anthropologist, Deceased Person

1846 – 1888

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Who was Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay?

Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as the first scientist to settle among and study people who had never seen a white man.

Miklouho-Maclay spent the major part of his life travelling and conducted scientific research in the Middle East, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia. Australia, though, became his adopted country and Sydney the home town of his family.

He became a prominent figure of nineteenth-century Australian science and became involved in significant issues of Australian and New Guinea history. Writing letters to Australian papers, Miklouho-Maclay expressed his opposition to the labor and slave trade in Australia, New Caledonia and the Pacific, as well as his opposition to the British and German colonial expansion in New Guinea. While in Australia, he built the first biological research station in the Southern Hemisphere, was elected to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, was instrumental in establishing the Australasian Biological Association, stayed at the elite Australian Club, became the intimate of the leading amateur scientist and political figure Sir William Macleay, and married the daughter of the Premier of New South Wales. His three grandsons have all contributed to the public life of Australia.

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Born
Jul 17, 1846
Novgorod Oblast
Ethnicity
  • Germans
  • Ukrainians
  • Poles
Nationality
  • Russia
  • Russian Empire
  • Australia
Profession
Education
  • Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
  • University of Leipzig
  • Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Lived in
  • Russian Empire
Died
Apr 24, 1888
Saint Petersburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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