Reinhold Philipp Johann Graf von Anrep-Elmpt (30 January 1834 – 26 August 1888) was a

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officer in

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n service, and an explorer.

Life and work

Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt of the

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was born in

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in the

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Joseph Carl von Anrep Joseph Carl von Anrep (russian: Иосиф Романович Анреп; ''Iosif Romanovich Anrep-Elmpt''; 1796 – 28 June 1860) was a Baltic German general during the Crimean War. He was a member of the Russian branch of the Anrep family, the ...

and Cecilie Anrep, ''née'' von Elmpt. He grew up in Riga and

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. In 1854 he became a cornet in the

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. He served in the

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. In 1858 he left the army with the rank of ''

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''. The time between 1858 and 1870 he spent on his estate Kärstna Manor (german: Kerstenshof) in present-day

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. After this, he spent the rest of his life as an explorer, travelling to Australia, the

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, China, Japan,

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and

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. He died in Thailand.

Selected writings

* ''Von der Spitze des Großglockners auf die sieben Sandhügel am See Francisco'' (Riga 1882) * ''Australien, Eine Reise durch den ganzen Welttheil'' (3 volumes, Leipzig 1886) * ''Reise um die Welt, Beschreibung von Land und Meer, nebst Sitten und Kulturschilderungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tropennatur'' (Leipzig 1887)

References

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