BIOLOGIST

Alexander von Middendorff

1815 - 1894

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Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ми́ддендорф, romanized: Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf; 18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He was known for his expedition in 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, describing the effects of permafrost on the spread of animals and plants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander von Middendorff is the 267th most popular biologist (up from 301st in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from Russia (up from 823rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander von Middendorff ranks 267 out of 1,097. Before him are Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, David Goodall, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Friedrich Parrot, and Erik Pontoppidan. After him are Carl Gustav Carus, Desmond Morris, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Francisco Varela, C. L. Gloger, and Jack W. Szostak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Alexander von Middendorff ranks 24. Before him are Ernest Meissonier, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Andreas Achenbach, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Giuseppina Strepponi, and Constantin von Tischendorf. After him are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Meade, Anthony Trollope, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Andrew Graham, and Charles Renouvier. Among people deceased in 1894, Alexander von Middendorff ranks 25. Before him are Nadezhda von Meck, Hassan I of Morocco, Austen Henry Layard, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Nikolai Ge. After him are William Waddington, August Kundt, R. M. Ballantyne, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Guillaume Lekeu, and Christina Rossetti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander von Middendorff ranks 568 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Yakov Sinai (1935), Nikolai Ge (1831), Anund Gårdske (1004), Viktor Abakumov (1908), and Sergey Akhromeyev (1923). After him are Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874), Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825), and Valeri Kubasov (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Alexander von Middendorff ranks 9. Before him are Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), and Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870). After him are Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), and Franz Meyen (1804).

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