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Ferdinand von Wrangel

1797 - 1870

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Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S. 29 December 1796] – 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1870) was a Russia German (Baltic German) explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as the chief manager of the Russian-American Company and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand von Wrangel is the 66th most popular explorer (up from 94th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Russia (up from 374th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Explorer.

Ferdinand von Wrangel was a Prussian officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars. He was most famous for being the commander of the Russian troops in the Crimean War.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 66 out of 498. Before him are Diogo Cão, Hernando de Soto, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Yaqut al-Hamawi, John Ross, and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. After him are Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, William Dampier, Richard E. Byrd, Luís Vaz de Torres, Alonso de Ojeda, and Jules Dumont d'Urville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 14. Before him are Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, Charles Lyell, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. After him are Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Alfred de Vigny, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, and Maria Isabel of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1870, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 10. Before him are Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Josef Strauss, Comte de Lautréamont, Alexander Herzen, and Francisco Solano López. After him are Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gabriel Lamé, Saverio Mercadante, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Princess Louise of Prussia, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 226 out of 3,761. Before him are Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Alexei Navalny (1976), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), and Gustav Bauer (1870). After him are The French Angel (1903), Gherman Titov (1935), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), and Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657).

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Among EXPLORERS In Russia

Among explorers born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 2. Before him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839). After him are Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Dmitry Laptev (1701).

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