Background
Schrenck came from a Baltic German family, and was born and brought up near Chotenj, south-west of Street St. Petersburg.
anthropologist explorer geographer naturalist Zoologist
Schrenck came from a Baltic German family, and was born and brought up near Chotenj, south-west of Street St. Petersburg.
He received his doctorate from the University of Tartu, and then studied natural science in Berlin and Königsberg.
He joined the crew of the Aurora in the circumnavigation of the world. In 1853 Schrenck was sent by the Street St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences to explore the Amurland on board the schooner Vostok. He reached the mouth of the Amur in September 1854 with the botanist Carl Maximowicz.
In February 1855 he visited Sakhalin and then explored the Amur in the spring and summer.
In 1856 he returned overland to Europe, via Lake Baykal. He published his findings in his Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande (1860).
He was awarded the Konstantin medal by the Russian Geographical Society. In later years Schrenck turned his attention to the study of the native peoples of Russia.
On 10 November, 1879 he was appointed director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Street St. Petersburg.
A number of animals are named after Schrenck, including
Schrenck"s limpet Notoacmea schrenckii
Amur sturgeon Acipenser shrenckii
Manchurian black water snake Elaphe schrenckii
Schrenck"s bittern Ixobrychus eurhythmus
and a butterfly Apatura schrenckiiru:Переливница Шренка.
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