Aleksandr Fedorovich Middendorf
1815–94
Russian biogeographer. Taught zoology at Kiev University, 1839–40. Travelled to Kola Peninsula with Karl Ernst von Baer, 1839. Commissioned by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences to travel in northern and eastern Siberia, 1843–4; published a description and analysis of his materials, 1848–75. Member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1845; permanent secretary, 1852–65. His Siberian journey led to the establishment of the Russian Geographical Society.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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