José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (born May 2, 1823 in Funchal , Madeira , † November 3, 1907 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. Bocage was the third degree nephew of the famous Portuguese poet Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage .

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Life

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was the son of João José Barbosa du Bocage and D. Josefa Ferreira Pestana. When he was five years old, the family moved to Brazil. In 1834 Bocage returned to Madeira. From 1839 to 1846 he studied at the University of Coimbra . In 1851 he became a lecturer at the Department of Zoology at the University of Lisbon , where he taught for more than 30 years. In 1858 he became scientific director and curator of zoology at the Natural History Museum of the Polytechnic School, which was founded to support the chair.

Bocage's work for the museum consisted of the acquisition, description and coordination of the collections, many of which came from the Portuguese colonies in Africa such as Angola and Mozambique , and were collected by naturalists such as José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (1832-1897). In 1862 he standardized the procedure for collecting, preparing and sending the specimens to the museum in his book "Instrucções Practicas sobre o Modo de Colligir, Preparar e Remetter Productos Zoológicos para o Museu de Lisboa". In 1860 he was able to successfully repurchase some collections that were looted during the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal, including valuable specimens that were collected in Brazil by the Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756-1815) . In 1875 he was elected Vice President of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon. In 1880 he withdrew from his teaching and scientific activities, but remained museum director. He became Minister of the Navy and Overseas and Foreign Minister of Portugal from 1883 to 1886 .

Bocage has published more than 200 scientific articles on mammals , reptiles , amphibians, and fish . He was responsible for identifying many new species, which he named after the naturalists who collected them. He first described 55 species of reptiles. Several animal taxas from São Tomé and the Iberian Peninsula such as the dwarf olive ibis ( Bostrychia bocagei ) or Bocage's wall lizard ( Podarcis bocagei ) are named after Bocage . In 1905, the zoological department of the National Museum in Lisbon was renamed the Museu José Vicente Barboza du Bocage in his honor . In 1978 the museum was almost completely destroyed in a fire.

Publications (selection)

• A ornitologia dos Açores , 1866
• Aves das possessões portuguesas d 'Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa , da 1ª à 24ª lista, 1868 a 1882
• Lista dos répteis das possessões portuguesas d 'Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa , 1866
• Notice sur un batracien nouveau du Portugal , 1864
• Diagnosis de algumas espécies inéditas da família Squalidae que frequentam os nossos mares , 1864
• Peixes plagiostomos , 1866
• Ornithology d 'Angola , 1881 and 1877
• Chiroptéres Africains nouveaux, rares ou peu connus . In: Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes (=  2 ). tape 1 , 1889, p. 1-7 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Herpethology d 'Angola et du Congo , 1895.

literature

• C. Almaça: A Zoologia ea Antropologia na Escola Politécnica e na Faculdade de Ciências (até 1983) . In: Fac.Ciências da Univ.Lisboa. Passado / Presente e Perspectivas Futuras, 150º aniversário da Escola Politécnica, 75º aniv.Fac. Ciências , 1987, pp. 293-312.
• E. Burnay: Comemorações Sociaes - O conselheiro Barboza du Bocage. Boletim da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa , 21ª. Série, nº7, 1903, pp. 245-253.
• B. Osório: Elogio Histórico do Illustre Naturalista e Professor JVBarboza du Bocage. Memórias do Museu Bocage , 1915, pp. 1-42

Web links

• JV Barbosa du Bocage . Information about José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage. (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59–68, pdf