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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 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 139,958 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ferdinand von Wrangel is the 77th most popular explorer (up from 89th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Russia (up from 325th 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 77 out of 405. Before him are Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Davy Crockett, Willem Janszoon, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Calamity Jane, and Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira. After him are Richard E. Byrd, Benjamin of Tudela, Ármin Vámbéry, Stepan Makarov, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Bjarni Herjólfsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 17. Before him are Ghalib, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Alfred de Vigny, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and Paul Delaroche. After him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, George Tupou I, Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, and Manuela Sáenz. Among people deceased in 1870, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 12. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont, Frédéric Bazille, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry. After him are Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Princess Louise of Prussia, Gabriel Lamé, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, and Saverio Mercadante.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ferdinand von Wrangel ranks 298 out of 3,262. Before him are Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Dmitry of Uglich (1582), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Feodor Chaliapin (1873), Andrey Markov (1856), and Viktor Vasnetsov (1848). After him are Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Mykola Azarov (1947), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Vitaly Ginzburg (1916), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737).

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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), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Nikolai Rezanov (1764), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703).

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