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Victor Motschulsky

1810 - 1871

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Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky, sometimes Victor von Motschulsky (Russian: Виктор Иванович Мочульский; 11 April 1810, St. Petersburg – 5 June 1871, Simferopol) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles. Motschulsky was an Imperial Army colonel who undertook extended trips abroad. He studied and described many new beetles from Siberia, Alaska, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Motschulsky is the 734th most popular biologist (up from 923rd in 2019), the 1,521st most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,210th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Victor Motschulsky ranks 734 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Skottsberg, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Amalie Dietrich, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Thomas Bell, and William Roxburgh. After him are Bunzō Hayata, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Wilhelm Hemprich, Hugo von Mohl, and Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Victor Motschulsky ranks 78. Before him are Grigory Gagarin, Pierre Bosquet, Andrew Scott Waugh, Miklós Barabás, L. L. Langstroth, and Johan August Wahlberg. After him are Baron Ignaz von Plener, Jules Malou, Paul Kane, Johanna Kinkel, Nísia Floresta, and Félicien David. Among people deceased in 1871, Victor Motschulsky ranks 58. Before him are François Delsarte, Stand Watie, Mariano Melgarejo, Henri Regnault, Kuriakose Elias Chavara, and Alexander Serov. After him are Willibald Alexis, Paul Kane, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Adolph Strecker, Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, and Jan Jacob Rochussen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Victor Motschulsky ranks 1,521 out of 3,761. Before him are Larin Paraske (1832), Lev Atamanov (1905), Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Nikolai Roslavets (1881), and Gavriil Kachalin (1911). After him are Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Oleg Losev (1903), Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792), and Léon Poliakov (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Victor Motschulsky ranks 18. Before him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Franz Meyen (1804), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Fritz Schaudinn (1871). After him are Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), David Keilin (1887), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), and Ivan Lepyokhin (1740).

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