Moritz Wagner (naturalist)

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Moritz Wagner

Moritz (Moriz) Wagner (born October 3, 1813 in Bayreuth ; †  May 31, 1887 in Munich ) was a German traveler , geographer and naturalist .

Life

Moritz Wagner was born as the brother of the physiologist Rudolf Wagner and attended the universities of Erlangen and Munich between 1833 and 1836 .

Between 1836 and 1838 Wagner traveled to Algeria , and from 1842 to 1845 the coastal countries of the Black Sea , the Caucasus , Armenia , Kurdistan and Persia . From 1852 to 1855 he was traveling with Carl Scherzer in Central and North America as well as in the Caribbean . In 1857 he went to America again and explored the Andes from Panama to Ecuador until 1860 .

On his research trips through Central and South America, Wagner put on extensive natural history collections. So he had a special interest in researching the fish fauna and put on an extensive fish collection. Most of the material that he collected during his first trip was lost on the way due to poor conservation. The remaining collection material was destroyed by a severe earthquake on April 16, 1854 in San Salvador. The second trip in 1858/1859 took Wagner to Panama and Ecuador. In the report about his second research trip, Wagner goes into more detail on the places, rivers or catchment areas where he collected. In some cases, this work also contains more detailed information on type sites of the new fish species described by Rudolf Kner in 1863 from the Wagner collection.

Grave at the Munich North Cemetery

In 1860 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1862 he became an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1862 Wagner became honorary professor for geography and ethnography at the University of Munich. When the state's ethnographic collections were merged in 1862 , Wagner was given the post of curator (director) with a salary of 800 guilders. The purchase of Siebold 'scher, Schlagintweit ' scher and other collections, from which the Königigl. Ethnographic Museum emerged.

In his last work, The Origin of Species through Spatial Separation , the so-called founder effect was described for the first time .

Wagner died by suicide in Munich on May 31, 1887 .

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Web links

Wikisource: Moritz Wagner  - Sources and full texts

References and comments

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, Karl von Scherzer mentions: Biographical sketch. In: Moriz Wagner: The origin of the species through spatial separation . Basel 1889, p. 31 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddieentstehungder00wagn~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D31~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ) May 30th as the date of death.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Moritz Friedrich Wagner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
  3. ^ Member entry by Moriz Wagner at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Moritz Friedrich (full name); Wagner, Moriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German traveler, geographer and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1887
Place of death Munich