Spix
Spix is the family name of the following people:
- Hermann Spix (* 1946) German writer
- Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826), German natural scientist
- Walter Spix (1894–1942), Superior and Vice Provincial of the Arnstein Fathers in the Arnstein Monastery on the Lahn
Spix means:
- the animals named after Johann Baptist von Spix
- Spix's Macaw (species of parrot)
- Spix guan (chicken bird)
- Spix night monkey (New World monkey )
- the non-profit social psychiatric initiative Xanten
In honor of Johann Baptist von Spix, there are also:
- Ritter von Spix Medal , awarded by the "Friends of the Zoological State Collection Munich eV"
- the Ritter von Spix School in Höchstadt an der Aisch
- Spix monument on the market square in Höchstadt an der Aisch
- a journal of the State Zoological Collection called Spixiana
- One Spix-Straße each in Munich and Höchstadt
