Johann Georg Gmelin's Siberian Survey

Johann Georg Gmelin

A German-born naturalist, botanist, chemist, physician, geographer, and explorer. Interested in the natural sciences from an early age, he studied at the University of Tübingen from around the age of 14. He obtained his medical degree in 1727, traveled to Russia, and became a professor of chemistry and natural history at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1733 to 1743, he participated in Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, surveying vast regions of Siberia. Recording plant and animal specimens alongside geography, ethnography, and climate, he contributed greatly to modern scientific research in Siberia. Known for systematically recording Siberian flora, he authored works such as "Flora Sibirica."

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Year	Johann Georg Gmelin
1700	Great Northern War (Age: 9 years before birth, Period: 1700–1721, Location: Baltic Region, Sweden, Poland, Saxony, Russia, etc.)
1709	Birth of Johann Georg Gmelin (Period: August 10, 1709, Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1722	Early studies at the University of Tübingen (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 12 years old, Period: c. 1722–1727, Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1727	Joining the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1727–1731, Location: St. Petersburg (Russian Empire)) Move to Russia and start of research activities (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 17 years old, Period: 1727–1728, Location: From Tübingen to St. Petersburg)
1733	Participation in the Second Kamchatka Expedition (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1733–1743, Location: Russian Empire, Ural Mountains, Siberia, Yakutsk, Yenisei River basin, etc.) Departure for the Siberian expedition (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 23 years old, Period: August 1733, Location: From St. Petersburg to Ural Mountains and West Siberia)
1734	Investigation of the Irtysh River basin and Transbaikal region (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1734–1735, Location: Irtysh River basin, Transbaikal region)
1735	Russo-Turkish War (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1676–1681, Location: Ukraine, Dnieper River Basin, Chyhyryn, Kaniv, etc.) Investigation based in Yakutsk (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 26 years old, Period: September 1735–May 1737, Location: Yakutsk (Russian Empire))
1736	House fire in Yakutsk (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 27 years old, Period: November 8, 1736, Location: Yakutsk (Russian Empire))
1739	Investigation of the Yenisei River basin (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1739–1740, Location: Yenisei River basin)
1741	Investigation of the Ural region and other areas (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1741–1742, Location: Baraba Steppe, Ishim region, Vagai Steppe, Iset region, Ural region)
1743	Return from the Siberian expedition (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 33 years old, Period: 1743, Location: St. Petersburg (Russian Empire))
1747	Publication of "Flora Sibirica" (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1747–1769, Location: St. Petersburg) Return to the University of Tübingen (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 37 years old, Period: 1747, Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1749	Election as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Johann Georg Gmelin, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1749, Location: Stockholm (Sweden)) Marriage (Johann Georg Gmelin, Barbara Gmelin, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1749, Location: Tübingen (Germany))
1751	Publication of "Travels in Siberia" (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1751–1752, Location: Tübingen and other areas)
1755	Death of Johann Georg Gmelin (Age: 45 years old, Period: May 20, 1755)

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