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Ferdinand von Wrangel
Baron}} Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von}} Wrangel (, tr. ; – ) was a Baltic German explorer and officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and a founder of the Russian Geographic Society. He is best known as the chief manager of the Russian-American Company and governor of the Russian settlements in present-day Alaska.In English texts, ''Wrangel'' is sometimes spelled ''Vrangel'', a transliteration from Russian, which more closely represents its pronunciation in German, or ''Wrangell''. Provided by Wikipedia