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Mykhailo Maksymovych

1804 - 1873

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Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Maksymovych (Ukrainian: Михайло Олександрович Максимович; 3 September 1804 – 10 November 1873) was a professor in plant biology, Ukrainian historian and writer in the Russian Empire of a Cossack background. He contributed to the life sciences, especially botany and zoology, and to linguistics, folklore, ethnography, history, literary studies, and archaeology. In 1871, he was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian language and literature department. Maksymovych also was a member of the Nestor the Chronicler Historical Association that existed in Kyiv in 1872-1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mykhailo Maksymovych is the 367th most popular historian (down from 334th in 2019). (down from 3,308th in 2019)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mykhailo Maksymovych ranks 367 out of 561Before him are Fenestella, Israel Gutman, Donald Kagan, Léon Poliakov, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and Franz Babinger. After him are Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Benny Morris, Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Keegan, and Jacob Talmon.

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Among people born in 1804, Mykhailo Maksymovych ranks 62Before him are Gheorghe Bibescu, Richard Cobden, Victor Schœlcher, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Mariana Pineda, and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold. After him are Julius Benedict, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, William Stokes, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, and Peder Balke. Among people deceased in 1873, Mykhailo Maksymovych ranks 64Before him are Francis Marrash, Charles Dupin, Mary Ann Cotton, Christopher Hansteen, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, and Semen Hulak-Artemovsky. After him are Salmon P. Chase, Stanislas Julien, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Fyodor Vasilyev, Alexei Fedchenko, and Matthew Fontaine Maury.

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