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Last Name Langsdorff
Given Name Georg Heinrich
alt. Names G. H. v. L. ; Freiherr von Langsdorff / Grigori Iwanowitsch Langsdorf / Григорий Иванович Лангсдорф / botanical shortname: La
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Year born 1774 in Wöllstein, Rheinhessen
Year died 1852
Place of death Freiburg im Breisgau
Father's occupation Oberamtmann and vice-chancellor / provost at Cassationshof des grand duchy Baden Johann Gottlieb Emil Langsdorf (1747-1827)
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Country of Activity Russia
Worked for G. H. v. L.: Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807 (Frankfurt am Main 1812) ;
Patronage Russian imperial court ; Christian August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( 1744-1798) ;
Collaborators biologist Johann Baptist von Spix (1781-1826) ; botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) ;
Techniques natural, technical, and maritime drawing and copper plate engraving
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Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Heinrich_von_Langsdorff ;
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other Further Place of Activity: Germany, USA, Protugal (Lisbon), Spain, France, and Brazil. Participated as naturalist and physician in the great Russian scientific circumnavigation expedition commanded by Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, from 1803 to 1805.
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