Miklukho-Maklai, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1846-1888

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Summary: Nicholas or Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer and scientist. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. He became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European". Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1846 [2]; 1846-07-05 [6]
Birth Place: Rozhdestvenskoe (Russie) [3]; Языково [6]
Died: 1888 [2]; 1888-04-02 [6]
Death Place: Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) [3]; Saint Petersburg [6]
Country: Australia [2]; Russia (Federation) [2]
Language: Russian [3][5]
Occupation: Etnogrāfs [5]; Antropologs [5]; Ceļotājs [5]; Biologs [5]; explorer [6]; anthropologist [6]; marine biologist [6]; biologist [6]; zoologist [6]; ethnographer [6]; traveler [6]; naturalist [6]; botanist [6]
Profession: Forschungsreisender [2]
Employer: Friedrich Schiller University Jena [6]
Field of Activity: Etnoloģija [5]; Antropologija [5]; Bioloģija [5]
Educated at: The Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium [6]; Leipzig University [6]; Heidelberg University [6]; Saint Petersburg State University [6]; Friedrich Schiller University Jena [6]; Annenschule [6]
Country of Education: Germany [6]; Russia [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
Oxford Reference: Overview [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. National Library of Latvia; 6. Wikidata

Last updated Dec 19, 2025