Giorgio Jan

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Giorgio Jan
Born
Giorgio Jan

(1791-12-21)21 December 1791
Died8 May 1866(1866-05-08) (aged 74)

Giorgio Jan (21 December 1791 in

herpetologist
, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan. He was the first director of the natural history museum at Milan.

Biography

Ferdinando Sordelli.

After having been an assistant at the

Giuseppe de Cristoforis died in 1837 bequeathing his collections to the town of Milan on condition that the municipality created a natural history museum whose direction had to be entrusted to Giorgio Jan, who offered his own collections. The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano was created the following year and is the oldest natural history museum of Italy. Later on, Jan engaged Ferdinando Sordelli
(1837–1916), artist and naturalist, who illustrated his publications starting with 1860.

Jan's main interest was botany, but he made immense collections of

Giuseppe de Cristoforis, he published many catalogues of specimens, often offered for sale or exchange. In these many new species
, were described mainly insects and molluscs.

In the scientific field of

Hypsiglena torquata jani ), the Mexican pine snake (Pituophis deppei jani ), Jan's shovelsnout snake (Prosymna janii, and Jan's centipede snake (Tantilla jani ).[3][4]
In the 1860s he began compiling what was to become the Iconographie Général des Ophidiens, an extensive illustrated collection of scientific papers relating to snakes, but he died before it was completed. The work was eventually finished and published in several parts by Sordelli.

The standard author abbreviation Jan is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Publications (incomplete list)

  • Iconographie Générale des Ophidians (1860–1866).[6] (in French).

References

  1. ^ Meyer, K. F. 1982. Kräuterbücher, Herbaria und botanische Prachtwerke – Historische Schätze im Herbarium Haussknecht der FSU. In: Reichtümer und Raritäten, Band II: Kulturhistorische Sammlungen, Museen, Archive, Denkmale, und Gärten der FSU. Jenaer Reden und Schriften 1981, FSU.
  2. ^ "Herbarium portatile: IndExs ExsiccataID=2147199907". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  3. ^ Beltz, Ellin (2007). "Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of North America – Explained".
  4. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("Jan", p. 133).
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Jan.
  6. ^ "Iconographie Générale des Ophidiens (1864)". 13 March 1860. (in French).

Further reading

  • Conci, Cesare (1966). "Il centenario di Giorgio Jan, la sua attività malacologica e le collezioni di Molluschi del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano". Lavori della Società Malacologica Italiana 3: 1–8. (in Italian).
  • Conci, Cesare (1978). Il Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Milan: Banca Popolare di Milano. (in Italian).
  • Conci, Cesare (1984). Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Musaeum Septalianum una collezione scientifica nella Milano del Seicento a cura di Antonio Aimi, Vincenzo De Michele, Alessandro Morandotti. Florence: Giunti Marzocco. (in Italian).

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