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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 ...
Jun 2, 2024 · Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel was a Russian explorer who completed the mapping of the northeastern coast of Siberia (1820–24). Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast was named in his honour. Graduating from the Russian naval academy in 1815, Wrangel sailed around the world in the sloop Kamchatka under.
Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (all: răng´gəl, Rus. fyĕrdyēnänt´ pētrô´vĬch vôn vrän´gĬl), 1796–1870, Russian naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator. He commanded a Russian naval expedition (1820–24) that explored the Arctic.
The family's earliest known patrilineal ancestor is the knight Eilardus (1241†). Notable members. Herman Wrangel (ca.1584-1643), a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor. Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), a Swedish Field Marshal.
Ferdinand Petrovitch von Wrangel, of German-Baltic origin, was a Russian explorer, seafarer and administrator born in 1797 in Pskov; he died in 1870 in Dorpat, Estonia. Following the premature death of his parents, he was sent to the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1815 as valedictorian.
In the early 1820s Chukchi hunters on the northeast Siberian coast told Russian explorer Ferdinand von Wrangel about a land to the north that could sometimes be seen when atmospheric...
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.
