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Vitus Bering
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 August 1681, 1681
- Died
- 8 December 1741, 19 December 1741
- Place of birth
- Horsens
- Place of death
- Bering Island
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Vitus
- Family name
- Bering
- Spouse
- Anna Bering
- Occupation
- explorer, hydrographer, naval officer, seafarer, discoverer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark, Russian Empire
- allegiance
- Russian Empire
- birth name
- Vitus Jonassen Bering
- cause of death
- scurvy
- date of baptism
- 12 August 1681
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- manner of death
- natural causes
- military branch
- Imperial Russian Navy
- military, police or special rank
- commander-captain
- name in native language
- Vitus Jonassen Bering
- participant in
- First Kamchatka Expedition, Great Northern Expedition
- relative
- Vitus Bering
- topic's main category
- Category:Vitus Bering
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