Johann Baptist Fischer (natural scientist)
Johann Baptist Fischer (born March 27, 1803 in Munich , † May 26, 1832 in Leiden , Netherlands ) was a Bavarian , German doctor and naturalist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " JBFisch. ", His zoological" J.Fischer "
Live and act
Johann Baptist Fischer graduated from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1821 .
He initially worked as a doctor in Leipzig and Brussels. He later became the assistant to the botanist Carl Ludwig Blume in the former Imperial Herbarium in Brussels, which had to move to Leiden in the Netherlands in September 1830 due to serious unrest . In 1826 he accompanied Blume on an expedition to Java , which resulted in the work Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium in 1828 . In 1832 he died of a breast disease at the age of only 28. In addition to botany, Fischer had a particular interest in mammals and so he described numerous new taxa in his standard work Synopsis Mammalium , published in 1829 , including the flat -spined-nosed fish ( Echymipera kalubu ), the spur -sheathtail ( Centronycteris maximiliani ), the Nilgiri langur ( Trachypithecus johnii ), Akodon azarae , the now extinct Martinique giant rice rat ( Megalomys desmarestii ), the Jamaica piglet rat ( Geocapromys brownii ), Pipistrellus rueppellii and the gray long-eared rat ( Plecotus austriacus ).
Fonts (selection)
- Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium . J. Frank, Brussels 1828-1851 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.48445 ).
literature
- The Rijksherbarium: Blumea. Tijdschrift voor de systematiek en de geografie der planten , Volume 5, 1942, p. 188.
- Janus: revue international de h'istoire de sciences, de la médicine, de la pharmacie et de la technique , volumes 66-67, EJ Brill, 1979, p. 30.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Baptist Fischer (natural scientist) at the IPNI
- Synopsis Mammalium (1830) - The Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 254.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1832 |
| Place of death | Suffer |