Alexander Bunge

Alexander Bunge was a male explorer, botanist, professor, and physician born in Kyiv in 1803. A citizen of the Russian Empire, he worked in Tartu and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat under Carl Friedrich von Ledebour and later taught Edmund Russow. His professional focus was botany, and he spoke Russian and German.

Bunge authored four works, including *Verzeichnis der Im Jahre 1832 Im Östl - Teile des Altei-Gebirges Gesammelten Pflanzen* and *Tomus IV, Untersuchung zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Beckengürtels der Amphibien, Reptilien und Vögel*. He was described in the Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. He died in Kiltsi in 1890 and was buried in Raadi cemetery. His children were Gustav von Bunge and Aleksandr Bunge, and his sibling was Friedrich Georg von Bunge.