Georg Jan

Georg Jan (born December 21, 1791 in Vienna , † May 8, 1866 in Milan ) was an Austrian taxonomist , zoologist , botanist and writer of Hungarian origin. He is also known as Giorgio January or Georges Jan. known. Its official abbreviation author is Jan .

Life

Monument to Giorgio Jans in the Natural History Museum of Milan

After working as an assistant at the University of Vienna , Jan received a professorship for botany at the University of Parma - which he held from 1816 to 1838 - and at the same time became director of the botanical garden there.

After his death in 1837, Giuseppe De Cristoforis left his natural history collection to the city of Milan on condition that a museum be set up for it and that his friend Giorgio Jan be entrusted with its management. Jan had also brought in his collection. In 1842 he gave up his chair in Parma and moved to Milan to start building the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano .

Jan's main interest was botany ; His extensive collection of natural history documents, which also included fossils and minerals , was significant . Together with Giuseppe De Cristoforis , he published catalogs of fossil specimens, some of which were offered for sale. In these documents, new species were also described for the first time , mainly insects and mollusks , for example the Italian pond snail ( Viviparus ater ). Jan also described some snake species for the first time, and some colleagues named new snake species in his honor (which are now considered subspecies ): Hypsiglena torquata jani ( Dugès , 1860) ( Texas Night Snake ) and Pituophis deppei jani ( Cope , 1861) ( English Mexican Pine Snake ). In 1856 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1840 Jan was introduced by Carlo Porro from Milan as member number 183 of the Société cuviérienne .

He first described 81 species of reptiles.

Honors

According to Jan, the algae genus is Jania J.V. Lamour. named.

Fonts

Catalogus plantarum phanerogamarum, ad usum botanophilorum exsiccatarum . 1818.
Elenchus plantarum que in horto ducali botanico parmesi… 1831.

literature

Jan Giorgio. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 69.

swell

Anna Busca: I 170 Anni Del Musei Di Storia Naturale Di Milano , (Italian)
Antonio Stoppani : Trovanti. Il sentimento della natura e la Divina Commedia, Discorsi accademici, Necrologie , Milan 1881 (various new editions, e.g. Bibliobazaar 2008, ISBN 0-559-89233-0 )
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 3 , 1840, p. 32 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

^ Société cuviérienne, p. 32.
↑ According to Gans Collections, see web link. 98 species according to Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59-68, pdf
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Jan, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jan, Giorgio; Jan, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	May 8, 1866
Place of death	Milan

[sc32-1] Société cuviérienne, p. 32.

[2] According to Gans Collections, see web link. 98 species according to Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59-68, pdf

[Burkhardt2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]