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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand von Wrangel has received more than 151,154 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ferdinand von Wrangel is the 94th most popular explorer (down from 76th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from Russia (down from 297th 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 94 out of 498. Before him are Tristão da Cunha, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Benjamin of Tudela, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Bjarni Herjólfsson, and Robert FitzRoy. After him are Carsten Niebuhr, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Calamity Jane, Ferdinand Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and Philip Johan von Strahlenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 18. Before him are Charles Lyell, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Alfred de Vigny, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Paul Delaroche, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. After him are Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Carlo Blasis, Sojourner Truth, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, and Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1870, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 14. Before him are Francisco Solano López, Alexander Herzen, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After him are Victor Noir, Anthony Mary Claret, Gabriel Lamé, Princess Louise of Prussia, Saverio Mercadante, and Ignaz Moscheles.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 374 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Rinat Dasayev (1957), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Viktor Kulikov (1921), and Henri Troyat (1911). After him are Eduard Khil (1934), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Nikolai Leskov (1831), and Basil Fool for Christ (1468).

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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 Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Afanasy Nikitin (1500), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Aleksandra Potanina (1843), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Grigory Shelikhov (1747).

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