Leopold Ivanovich von Schrenck
Leopold Ivanovich von Schrenck is a zoologist, geologist and ethnologist Russo German, born in 1826 with Chotenj in the south-west of Saint-Pétersbourg and dead the January 8th 1894.
It obtains a doctorate at the university of Tartu and studies then the Natural history with Berlin and Königsberg. In 1853, Schrenck is sent by the Academy of Science Saint-Pétersbourg to explore the area of the Amour. It reaches the mouth of the river in September 1854 with the botanist Carl Johann Maximowicz (1827-1891).
In February 1855, it visits the island of Sakhaline and explores the Love during the summer and the autumn. It joined the Europe in 1856 while passing by the Lac Baïkal. The report of its voyage appears in 1860 under the title of Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Moor .
At the end of its life, Schrenck is interested in the study of the people autochtones of Russia and becomes the director of the Museum of anthropology and ethnography.
Several S were dedicated to him like Notoacmea schrenckii by Carl Emil Lischke (1813-1886) in 1868, Acipenser shrenckii by Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802-1879) in 1869, Elaphe schrenckii by Alexander Strauch (1832-1893) in 1873 and Amuriana schrenckii by Edouard Ménétries (1802-1861) 1859.
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