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Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
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Russian explorer and scientist
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1846-07-17 ) 17 July 1846, Rozhdestvenskoye, Russia
- Died
- 14 April 1888 (1888-04-14) (aged 41), St. Petersburg, Russia
- Alma mater
- Heidelberg University , Leipzig University , Jena University
- Known for
- Anthropological work in New Guinea and the Pacific
- Fields
- Ethnology , anthropology , biology
- Author abbrev botany
- Mikl.-Maclay
- Author abbrev zoology
- Miklucho-Maclay
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nikolay
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- botanist
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Native language
- Russian
- Student of
- Carl Gegenbaur
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay 1876.png
- Residence
- Port Said
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- Commons category
- Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
- date of birth
- 1846-07-05
- date of death
- 1888-04-02
- place of burial
- Volkovo Cemetery Writer's Walkways
- manner of death
- natural causes
- influenced by
- Ernst Haeckel
- birth name
- Николай Николаевич Миклуха
- pseudonym
- N. von Maclay
- medical condition
- colitis
- member of
- Linnean Society of New South Wales
- unmarried partner
- mestizo
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicholas or Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Миклу́хо-Макла́й; 17 [O.S. 5] July 1846 – 14 [O.S. 2] April 1888) was a Russian explorer and scientist . He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. He became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European".
Miklouho-Maclay spent the major part of his life travelling and conducted scientific research in the Middle East, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia. Australia became his adopted country and Sydney the hometown of his family.
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