High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska. Steller was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg, son to Johann Jakob Stohler (after 1715, Stoller) and studied at the University of Wittenberg. He then traveled to Russia, arriving in November 1734. He met the naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685–1735) at the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Two years after Messerschmidt's death, Steller married his widow and acquired notes from his travels in Siberia not handed over to the academy.Steller heard about Vitus Bering’s Second Kamchatka Expedition, that had already left St Petersburg in February 1733. He volunteered to join it and was accepted. He then left St Petersburg in January 1738, met Johann Georg Gmelin in Yeniseisk in January 1739 and finally reached Okhotsk and the main expedition and Bering in March 1740.

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