Giorgio Jan

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Giorgio Jan is a zoologist, a Botaniste and an Italian writer , born the December 21st 1791 with Vienna and dead the May 8th 1866 with Milan.

After having been assistant at the university of Vienna, it obtains the post of professor of Botanique at the university of Parma as well as the direction of the Botanical garden. It should be noted that at that time, the duchy of Parma had passed for the Austrian jurisdiction following the congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon to Waterloo.

The first occupation of Jan is botany, but it constitutes immense collections of Natural history, of which many Fossile S and mineral. With Giuseppe De Cristoforis (1803-1837), they publish many catalogs of specimens, often offered to the sale or the exchanges, and where they describe many species S news, mainly of the Insecte S and Mollusque S.

Cirstoforis drives in 1837 and bequeaths its collections to the town of Milan in the condition that the municipality created a natural history museum of natural history whose direction will have to be entrusted to Giorgio Jan. This one is besides also offers its own collections. The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale is created the following year and is the oldest natural history museum of natural history of Italy. He engages immediately Ferdinando Sordelli (1837-1916), artist and naturalist, who illustrates his publications to him.

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