Ferdinand von Wrangel
Former Minister of the Navy of the Russian Empire
Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel 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. Wikipedia
Born: January 9, 1797, Pskov, Russia
Died: June 6, 1870 (age 73 years), Tartu, Estonia
Grandchildren: Georges Wrangell, Ferdinand Wilhelm Georg Alexander Baron von Wrangell, Egla Antonie von Wrangell, and more
Books: Russian America: Statistical and Ethnographic Information, Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Seas in the Years, 1820, 1821 and 1823, Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea, in the Years1820, 1821,1822 & 1823 Commanded by Lieutenant, Now Admiral Ferdinand Von Wrangell ; Edited by Edward Sabine, and more
Organization founded: Russian Geographical Society
Place of burial: Viru-Jaagupi Cemetery, Kannastiku, Estonia