Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741-1811

Bering's successors, 1745-1780
book chapter 1948

Summary: Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767 and 1810. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1741-09-22 [2][6]
Birth Place: Berlin [2][6]
Died: 1811-09-08 [2][6]
Death Place: Berlin [2][6]
Country: Germany [2]; Russia (Federation) [2]
Language: German [3][5]; Russian [5]
Occupation: Zoologs [5]; Ģeogrāfs [5]; Ģeologs [5]; Botāniķis [5]; Taksonomists [5]; Etnologs [5]; Zinātnieks [5]; Ceļotājs [5]; explorer [6]; zoologist [6]; ornithologist [6]; biologist [6]; botanist [6]; geographer [6]; arachnologist [6]; entomologist [6]; physician [6]; botanical collector [6]; scientific collector [6]
Employer: Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences [6]; Russian Academy of Sciences [6]
Field of Activity: Zooloģija [5]; Botānika [5]; Ģeogrāfija [5]; Dabaszinātnes [5]; Ģeoloģija [5]; Etnogrāfija [5]
Educated at: Leiden University [6]; University of Göttingen [6]; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg [6]
Country of Education: Germany [6]; Netherlands [6]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]

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

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