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Richard Maack

1825 - 1886

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Richard Otto Maack (also Richard Karlovich Maak; Russian: Ричард Карлович Маак; 4 September 1825 – 25 November 1886) was a Russian naturalist, geographer, and anthropologist. He is most known for his exploration of the Russian Far East and Siberia, particularly the Ussuri and Amur River valleys. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Maack has received more than 28,086 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Maack is the 416th most popular explorer, the 161st most popular biography from Estonia and the 4th most popular Estonian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Richard Maack ranks 416 out of 498Before him are Lars Christensen, Tobias Furneaux, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Man of the Hole, Kristian Prestrud, and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda. After him are Alexander Burnes, Valerian Albanov, Lachlan Macquarie, Boyd Alexander, Hugh Clapperton, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Richard Maack ranks 75Before him are Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, George Inness, Anton Heinrich Springer, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Adelaide Anne Procter, and Giuseppe Prinzi. After him are R. M. Ballantyne, A. P. Hill, Francisco Antonino Vidal, William McGonagall, James Collinson, and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch. Among people deceased in 1886, Richard Maack ranks 51Before him are Johan Nicolai Madvig, Albert Küchler, Gustav Fischer, Frederick Guthrie, Tomás Villalba, and Joseph Victor von Scheffel. After him are Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Samuel J. Tilden, Théodore Aubanel, Randolph Caldecott, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Charles Francis Adams Sr..

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Richard Maack ranks 161 out of 351Before him are Alexander Vostokov (1781), Eri Klas (1939), Ants Laikmaa (1866), Anna Haava (1864), Osvald Käpp (1905), and Jüri Jaakson (1870). After him are Marju Lauristin (1940), Paul Raud (1865), Miina Härma (1864), Jaan Ehlvest (1962), Ilmar Kullam (1922), and Emma Asson (1889).

Among EXPLORERS In Estonia

Among explorers born in Estonia, Richard Maack ranks 4Before him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778), Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770), and Eduard von Toll (1858).