Johann Jakob von Tschudi
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| Born | Johann Jakob von Tschudi 25 July 1818 |
| Died | 8 October 1889 (aged 71) |
Johann Jakob von Tschudi (25 July 1818 – 8 October 1889) was a Swiss naturalist, explorer and diplomat.
Biography
Tschudi was born in Glarus to Johann Jakob Tschudi, a merchant, and Anna Maria Zwicky.[1] He studied natural sciences and medicine at the universities of Neuchâtel, Leiden and Paris. In 1838 he travelled to Peru, where he remained for five years exploring and collecting plants in the Andes. He went to Vienna in 1843. In 1845 he described 18 new species of South American reptiles.[2] Between 1857 and 1859 he visited Brazil and other countries in South America.
In 1860 he was appointed Swiss
Peru
He wrote a textbook on Peru called Peruvian antiquities in which he recorded various aspects of Peruvian life and history.
Legacy
Tschudi is commemorated in the scientific names of a species of venomous South American coral snake, Micrurus tschudii.[5] the montane guinea pig (Cavia tschudii), the Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat, the Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat. Birds named after Tschudi include the Tschudi's tapaculo, Tschudi's nightjar, and the Tschudi's woodcreeper.
Works
- Classification der Batrachier, mit Berucksichtigung der fossilen Thiere dieser A btheilung der Reptilien (Neuchâtel, 1838)
- Untersuchungen über die Fauna Perus (St. Gall, 1844–47)
- "Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150–170. (Berlin, 1845) (in Latin)
- Peruanische Reiseskizzen während der Jahre 1838-42 (2 vols., 1846)
- Die Ketchua-Sprache (3 vols., Vienna, 1853)
- Reise durch die Andes von Südamerika (Gotha, 1860)
- Die brasilianische Provinz Minas-Geraes (1863)
- Reisen durch Südamerika (5 vols., 1866–69)
- Organismus der Khets̆ua-Sprache (Leipzig 1884)
He also edited, in association with Mariano Eduardo de Rivera, Antigüedades Peruanas (Vienna, 1851; translated by F. L. Hawks, New York, 1853).
Notes
- ^ Veronika Feller-Vest. "Johann Jakob von Tschudi". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in French). Translated by Pierre-G. Martin.
- ^ "Tschudi". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Peruvian antiquities, by Johann Jakob von Tschudi and Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz, translation by Francis L Hawkes, A.S. Barnes & Co., Cincinnati, 1855
- ^ Peruvian antiquities, page 29
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Tschudi", p. 269).
References
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1889). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Further reading
- "Johann Jakob von Tschudi," in Tom Taylor and Michael Taylor, Aves: A Survey of the Literature of Neotropical Ornithology, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Libraries, 2011.
External links
- Works by Johann Jakob von Tschudi at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Johann Jakob von Tschudi at Internet Archive
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