Johann Andreas Wagner

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Johann Andreas Wagner , called Andreas Wagner , (born March 21, 1797 in Nuremberg , † December 17, 1861 in Munich ) was a German zoologist .

Life

Wagner was professor of zoology at the University of Munich. He dealt with mammals, molluscs and fossils. He described the snails and mussels collected by Spix in Brazil (1827). Wagner studied in Erlangen, received his doctorate there in 1826, and completed his habilitation in Würzburg. From 1832 he was adjunct of the Zoological State Collection in Munich under Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberth (successor to JB von Spix), later the second curator of the Zoological State Collection Munich. From 1835 he was an extraordinary and from 1842 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1855 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . He had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1857.

He was an opponent of Darwinism and a supporter of the biblical story of creation and also rejected the interpretation of the London specimen of Archeopteryx found in 1861 as a transitional form from reptiles to birds. For him it was just a reptile (he called it Griphosaurus , the puzzle lizard ), and the feathers were just ornaments . This contributed to the fact that the British Museum was able to acquire the find and that interested German buyers such as Friedrich Ernst Witte fell out.

In 1815 he was one of the founders of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg . In 1816 he was the founder of the Erlangen fraternity of Teutonia and in 1817 a co-founder of the Erlangen fraternity .

In 1839 he discovered the site of fossil mammals in Pikermi in Greece.

Works

  • Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam 1817-1820 ... collegit et pingenda curavit JBSpix , ediderunt FaPaula de Knie et CFP de Martius . - Monachii, Wolf [Munich, Wolf] 1827.
  • Description of the remains of primeval mammals from the Muggendorf caves, which are in the collection of the k. University of Erlangen . ISIS booklet IX, pages 966-994, Jena 1829
  • New systematic Conchylia cabinet . Nuremberg 1829
  • Handbook of Natural History . 1830
  • The mammals in pictures from nature with descriptions . Erlangen 1836-1855.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of America’s warm-blooded vertebrates . Munich 1837
  • Description of a newly discovered Ornithocephalus with general comments on the organization of this genus . Munich 1837.
  • Fossil remains of a monkey and several other mammals from Greece . Munich 1840
  • Description of some new or less known rodents . In: Archives for Natural History . tape 1 , 1842, p. 1-33 ( online [accessed August 13, 2012]).
  • History of the primeval world, with special consideration of the human races and the Mosaic account of creation . Leipzig 1845
  • Rejection of the claims made by ... H. Burmeister in favor of geological-volcanic progress and to the disadvantage of the Mosaic deeds of creation ... A supplement to my history of the primeval world. Leipzig 1845
  • Science and the Bible, in contrast to the blind faith of the Lord C. Vogt , etc . Stuttgart 1855
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the primeval fish deposited in the lithographic slate . Munich 1861

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Andreas Wagner. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Solnhofen fossils. Archeopteryx ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fossilien-solnhofen.de
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 137 , 9
  4. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 25.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Johann Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1861
Place of death Munich