Feodor Petrovich Lütke
1797–1882
Russian navigator, geographer, and arctic explorer. Admiral, 1855; count, 1866. Founding member, Russian Geographical Society, 1845; director, 1845–50, 1857–72. President, St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1864–82.
Source
GSE s.v. Litke, Fedor Petrovich.
Bibliography
GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.
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