Carl Ernst von Baer
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| Prof. Carl Ernst von Baer | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1792 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1876 | ||||||||||
| Residence | St Petersburg | ||||||||||
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academic explorer | ||||||||||
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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Эрнст фон Бэр), 28 February [O.S. 17 February] 1792 – 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1876 was an Estonian scientist and explorer. Baer is also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр).
Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer and a founding father of embryology. He was an explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society and the first President of the Russian Entomological Society, making him a distinguished Baltic German scientist.
