Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
✓ Source-basedstableRussian explorer and scientist
Historical FiguresLived 1846 to 1888 · aged 41
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Nicholas or Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay 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".
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Ernst Haeckel with his assistant, Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands, 1866
The Marine Biological Station (centre of photo) at Watson's Bay circa 1881.
Miklouho-Maclay, ca. 1880 in Queensland, Australia. A typically posed shot from the period to emphasise the "explorer" persona - note the Eucalyptus leaves, and explorer "tools".
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About this person
Category
Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
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deceased
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Lived 1846 to 1888 · aged 41
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