Peter von Köppen

Peter von Köppen (February 19, 1793 – May 23, 1864), was a Russian ethnographer, historian, statistician, and geographer of German heritage. An academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), he held the civil rank of Active State Councillor.

In 1825 he earned the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Tübingen and in 1826 he was elected corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Through his association with his former professor of political economy, Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob, and with the academician Friedrich von Adelung, whose daughter Alexandra he married in 1830, von Köppen was introduced to contemporary scientific and literary circles. He became a founding member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. Историческое исследование о Югорской земле, в Российско-Императорском титуле упоминаемой. 1818 Материалы для истории просвещения в России, 1819 vol 2: "Библиографические Листы" О виноделии и винной торговле в России. 1832 Крымский Сборник. СПб., 1837 Ueber die Dichtigkeit der Bevölkerung in den Provinzen des Europäischen Russlands, 1845 Finnland in ethnographischer Beziehung, 1846 Ethnographische Karte des St.-Petersburgischen Gouvernements, 1850 Der Lithauische Volkstamm-Ausbreitung und Stärke desselben in der Mitte des XIX Jahrhunderts, 1851 Города и селения Тульской губернии в 1857 г. Главные озёра и лиманы Российской империи. 1859 О народных переписях в России. 1889. Awards 1852: Full of the Russian Geographical Society for the ethnographic map of European Russia 1854 Gold of the Russian Geographical Society for the ethnographic map of European Russia