Alexander von Volborth/Aleksandr Fedorovich von Volborth, was a Russian palaeontologist. Volborthite, a mineral containing copper and vanadium and first found in 1838 at the Sofronovskii Copper Mine near Perm in the Urals, was named after him.
- Occupation
- paleontologist, physician, mineralogist, naturalist
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- January 11, 1800
- Died
- March 5, 1876
