Miklukha Maclay Biography

Miklukho-Maclay Nikolai Place of birth-the village of Lazikovo-Rozhnvenskoye Borovichi district of the Novgorod province. The hereditary nobility for the family was earned by the Zaporizhzhya Cossack Stepan Miklukha, who distinguished himself during the capture of Ochakov. Without graduating from gymnasium, Miklouho-Maclay became a free listener at the Physics and Mathematics Department of St.

Petersburg University. The study did not last long. Miklukho-Maclay, an active participant in student unrest, was expelled from the university without the right to enter others. Student fraternity supported the disgraced comrade. The money was raised, for which he went to Heidelberg University in Germany, where he continued his studies - at the Faculty of Philosophy. Soon he transferred to the medical faculty of Leipzig and then the University of Yen.

Here he met the famous zoologist E. Haeckel, with whom he made a trip to the Canary Islands as an assistant to Morocco. After graduating from the university, Nikolai Nikolaevich made an independent journey along the Red Sea coast and returned to his homeland for the year. Here Nikolai Nikolaevich moved to the active study of the issues of natural science, anthropology, ethnography and geography, and the next page in the biography of Miklouho-Maclay is a long journey into which he went in the year.

On the Vityaz warship, he reached New Guinea. Here, among the Papuans Aborigines, he spent two years, studying their life, customs, and religious rites. He later continued the observations in the Philippines, in Indonesia, on the Malacca Peninsula and the islands of Oceania. In years, he returned to the already studied shores of the North-Eastern New Guinea. Poor well -being and general exhaustion forced him to leave the island and leave for Singapore.

The treatment lasted six months. There was no funds to return to Russia, and he moved to Australia, where he lived with the Russian vice-consul at one time.

Then he moved to the public figure, zoologist and chairman of the Linneevsky Society of the New South Wales W. with his help, the Miklukho-Maclay proposal was implemented-the construction of the Australian Zoological Station, which later received the name of the marine biological station. In years, he is a participant in the expedition to the islands of Melanesia and again returns to the "native" places of New Guinea.

In the year, Miklukho-Maclay returned to Russia. His plans were to build a Russian station and a Russian settlement in New Guinea, but no one supported them. The audience with Emperor Alexander III almost endlessly ended. True, small assistance was nevertheless provided: debts were repaid and funds were allocated for further research and publication of scientific papers. In the year, Nikolai Nikolaevich returned to Australia, where he married Margarita Robertson, the daughter of a large landowner.

In the year, the scientist arrived in Russia again and offered the emperor the “Project for the Development of the Maclay Bank” in order to counteract the colonization of the island of Germany. There was no positive decision on this project. The worn organism could not cope with the aggravated diseases. After the death of Nikolai Nikolaevich, his wife and children returned to Australia.