Alfredo Langguth

Alfredo Langguth

Alfredo Ricardo Langguth Bonino (born May 18, 1941 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan - Brazilian mammal loge . He made significant contributions to mammalogy, particularly in relation to rodents , marsupials , primates, and carnivores, and he was a major influence on the education of many Brazilian mammalogies.

Life

From 1959 Alfredo Langguth studied biosciences at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1964 . During the same period he was a volunteer at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natura in Montevideo. From 1964 to 1968 he completed a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study zoology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he wrote his dissertation The South American Canidae with special attention to the maned wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger (morphological, systematic and phylogenetic investigations) under the direction of Dietrich Starck was awarded a doctorate in natural sciences . After completing his studies, he returned to Uruguay in 1968 and worked as a researcher and assistant professor at the Universidad de la República. From 1971 to 1972 he completed his post-doctoral phase at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on a research fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

From 1971 to 1984 he was a research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History. From 1973 to 1979 he was Associate Professor at the Universidad de la República. In 1979 he moved to Brazil , where he settled in João Pessoa . From 1979 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2003 he was associate professor and from 2010 to 2014 he was visiting professor at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba . From 1989 to 1994 he was associate professor and curator of the mammal collection at the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . From 1991 to 2012 he was a consultant and appraiser at the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). From 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the advisory committee for zoology of the CNPq.

In 1991 he was a consultant for the creation of the Master’s degree in zoology at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and in 1993 he was a consultant for the coordination for the improvement of university staff (Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES) in the evaluation of the postgraduate degree in zoology at the Universidade de São Paulo . He supervised more than 25 Masters and PhD students.

Langguth has published around 100 scientific papers, including specialist articles, books and book chapters. He was the first descriptions of Coimbra titi monkeys ( Callicebus coimbrai ) to Pearson comb rat ( Ctenomys pearsoni ) to the Río Negro comb rat ( Ctenomys rionegrensis ), for climbing guinea pigs ( Kerodon acrobata ) to Vespermausart Calomys mattevii , for passion fruit Cerradomaus ( Cerradomys maracujuensis ), the Lindbergh Cerradomaus ( Cerradomys scotti ), the Reig prairie mouse ( Akodon reigi ) and the Ceará prawn spike ( Coendou baturitensis ).

Honors and Dedication Names

Alfredo Langguth was elected honorary member of the American Society of Mammalogists in 2008 and an honorary member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Mastozoologia in 2010. The fossil Glyptodon species Pseudolophophorus langguthi , the subspecies Deltamys kempi langguthi of the Kemp field mouse and the Langguth Cerradomaus ( Cerradomys langguthi ) are named after him.

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae (Portuguese)
• Literature by and about Alfredo Langguth in the bibliographic database WorldCat