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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

1778 - 1852

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Faddey Faddeyevich Bellingshausen or Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen (20 September [O.S. 9 September] 1778 – 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1852) was a Russian cartographer, explorer, and naval officer of Baltic German descent, who attained the rank of admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition that discovered the continent of Antarctica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen has received more than 423,322 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen is the 41st most popular explorer (up from 45th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Estonia and the most popular Estonian Explorer.

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was a Baltic German explorer and admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1819-1821.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ranks 41 out of 498. Before him are Henry Morton Stanley, Ingólfr Arnarson, Juan Ponce de León, Francisco de Orellana, Thorfinn Karlsefni, and William Baffin. After him are Richard E. Byrd, Frederick de Houtman, Sven Hedin, Zhang Qian, Diego de Almagro, and Jacob Roggeveen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ranks 7. Before him are Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Bonaparte, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Humphry Davy, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, and José de San Martín. After him are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Bernardo O'Higgins, Fernando Sor, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Clemens Brentano. Among people deceased in 1852, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ranks 8. Before him are Louis Braille, Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, and Auguste de Marmont. After him are Johan Gadolin, Karl Bryullov, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Vasily Zhukovsky, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, and Ján Kollár.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ranks 5 out of 351. Before him are Catherine I of Russia (1684), Alfred Rosenberg (1893), Emil Lenz (1804), and Arvo Pärt (1935). After him are Karl Ernst von Baer (1792), Wolfgang Köhler (1887), Konstantin Päts (1874), Lennart Meri (1929), Paul Keres (1916), Louis Kahn (1901), and Arnold Rüütel (1928).

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Among EXPLORERS In Estonia

Among explorers born in Estonia, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ranks 1. After him are Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770), Eduard von Toll (1858), and Richard Maack (1825).

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