Karl Ernst Von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Russian: Карл Эрнст фон Бэр), also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer (Russian: Карл Макси́мович Бэр, 28 February 1792 – 28 November 1876), was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society and the first President of the Russian Entomological Society.
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