Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists.
- Occupation
- explorer, anthropologist, zoologist, physician
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- February 17, 1792, February 28, 1792
