Alexander Strauch
1832–1893 (age 61)
Biography
Alexander Strauch (Russian: Александр Александрович Штраух, romanized: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Straukh; 1 March 1832, in Saint Petersburg – 14 August 1893, in Wiesbaden, Germany) was a Russian naturalist of German descent, most notably a herpetologist.
In 1861, he started working as a curator of the Zoological Museum at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. From 1879 to 1890, he was director of the museum. He is credited with establishing St. Petersburg as a major world center in the field of herpetology.