Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (14 October 1791 – 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1841) was a Baltic German naturalist, explorer, and mountaineer, who lived and worked in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. A pioneer of Russian and Estonian scientific mountaineering, he is best known for leading the first expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat in recorded history.
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14 October 1792 Karlsruhe, Margraviate of Baden, Holy Roman Empire
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15 January 1841 (aged 48) (present-day Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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