Shrenk L.I., (1826-1894), ethnographer and geographer

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SHRENK Leopold Ivanovich (1826-1894, St. Petersburg), geographer, ethnographer, zoologist, and explorer of Siberia and Far East, member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1865. He graduated from Derpt University in 1850. In 1854-56, he was at the head of an expedition to the Amur and Sakhalin. On his return, he worked on materials collected by the expedition and published four volumes of them in German. On Foreign Peoples from the Amur Region is his work published in Russian in 1883-1903. Shrenk was the director of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in 1879-94. He introduced a new term, Paleoasian Peoples, into science to designate the earliest population of North-Eastern Asia. He lived at 20/1 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island in the 1860s and 2/1 Bolshaya Neva Embankment (today, Lieutenant Shmidt Embankment) afterwards. He was buried at Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery.

References: Решетов А. М. Леопольд Иванович Шренк: (К 170-летию со дня рождения) // Курьер Петровской Кунсткамеры. 1997. № 6/7. С. 72-87.

L. I. Yarukova. Schrenk Leopold Ivanovich
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/20
Leitenanta Schmidta Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/2
Решетов А. М. Леопольд Иванович Шренк: (К 170-летию со дня рождения) // Курьер Петровской Кунсткамеры, 1997 Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography