Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (born 1741)

Peter Simon Pallas

German zoologist, botanist, and natural historian (1741–1811)

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in early modern Germany and worked primarily in the Russian Empire between 1767…