Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg

The count Johann Centurius, Graf von Hoffmannsegg , is a Botaniste, a entomologist and a German Ornithologue , born the August 23rd 1766 with Dresden and dead the December 13rd 1849 in this same city.

Rich person landowner, it makes his studies with Leipzig, with Göttingen like with Brunswick near the entomologist Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (1743-1831). He makes long voyages in Europe of which he brings back vast collections of plants (he exchanges some samples with the famous Parisian collector Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847)) and of animals. He thus traverses the Hungary, the Austria and the Italy in 1795 - 1796, the Portugal of 1797 with 1801 at the sides of the naturalist Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851) and accompanied by his servant Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789-1844).

He forwards to Johann It (1775-1813), another student of Hellwig, his zoological collections so that he can study them. The count Hoffmannsegg sends F.W. Sieber in Brazil during eleven years so that it forwards to him of the collections of plants and animals.

He works with Berlin of 1804 with 1816 and is elected member of the Academy of Science of the city in 1815. He is the founder of the zoological Musée of Berlin in 1810. Hoffmannsegg proposes the name of It for the station of conservative. All the collections of Hoffmannsegg are then transferred to Berlin.

Source

Michael Walters (2003). has Concise History Ornithology off. Yale University Close (New Haven, Connecticut): 255 p.

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