Ferdinand von Wrangell

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Ferdinand von Wrangell (1897)

Ferdinand Georg Friedrich Baron von Wrangell ( Russian Фердинанд Фердинандович фон Врангель Ferdinand Ferdinandowitsch Wrangel ; * February 4, July / February 16,  1844 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † December 3, 1919 in Ascona ) was a Russian university professor and writer .

Life

Origin and family

Alexander was a member of the Baltic noble family von Wrangel . His parents were the Russian admiral and circumnavigator Ferdinand von Wrangel (1796-1870) and Elisabeth, nee Baroness von Rossillon (1810-1854). He married Adelina Montague (1850–1934) in Kreuznach in 1870 . The marriage remained without children.

Career

Wrangell attended the naval cadet corps in St. Petersburg since 1857. He was promoted to guard in 1858 and in 1862 to Mitschman . From 1862 to 1865 he studied physics and mathematics in Dorpat . Then he rose to lieutenant in 1865 and undertook several voyages by ship as far as the Mediterranean , and from 1869 to 1870 he attended the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg . In 1872 he was in command of the Priboj gunboat and in 1873 he was in charge of physical investigations on the Black and Azov Seas . In 1875 he received his promotion to lieutenant commander and was from 1877 to 1878 on the staff of the defense of the Dnepr - mouth in Ochakov .

From 1879 to 1883 he was Prince Educator of Duke Carl Michael zu Mecklenburg and finally rose to Captain II in 1885 . He was inspector from 1883 and until 1892 and director of the Alexander Lyceum in St. Petersburg from 1892 to 1896 . As early as 1887, he was a councilor and senior assessor. He also taught as a professor of oceanography and meteorology at the Naval Academy. After he was appointed Council of State in 1891 , he was promoted to Real Council of State that same year .

Wrangell was a Knight of the Order of St. Anne III. Class, the Order of St. Stanislaus II. And I. Class and the Order of St. Vladimir III. Class. He received his farewell in 1896 and ended his life in a. D. in Ascona in Switzerland , where he increasingly devoted himself to writing , the inclination he had already shown .

Works

  • Sailing instructions for the sea route from Kronstadt to Vladivostok (12 vols.)
  • The Russian-Baltic Question , St. Petersburg and Leipzig 1883
  • Russia's inner situation , Leipzig 1905
  • Why are they fighting , Zurich 1914
  • International Anarchy or Constitution , Zurich 1915
  • Russian retrospectives and outlooks , Zurich 1917
  • In magnis voluisse sat est, memories , Acta Wrangeliana 29, 1965, pp. 18-106

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Volume 1, Görlitz [1931], p. 596.