Ferdinand von Wrangel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ferdinand von Wrangel

Russian explorer and seaman

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1796

Place of Birth: Pskov, Pskov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 25-May-1870

Profession: military personnel, politician, geographer, land owner, explorer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ferdinand von Wrangel

  • Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig Freiherr von Wrangel (Russian: ???????´?? ?????´??? ???´?????, tr.
  • Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S.
  • 29 December 1796] – 6 June [O.S.
  • 25 May] 1870) was a Baltic German explorer and seaman in the Imperial Russian Navy, 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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