Johann Georg Wagler

Johann Georg Wagler is a German zoologist , born the March 28th 1800 with Nuremberg and dead the August 23rd 1832 with Moosach, a village close to Munich.

It makes its studies at the university of Erlanger where it obtains a title of doctor in 1820. It takes part in work of the Bavarian Academy of sciences of Munich and in about it 1819 becomes secretary.

In 1820, Wagler collaborates with Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius for the organization and the classification of the immense collection which they reported of the Brésil. It deals more particularly with the Serpent S and makes appear, starting from the notes of Spix, Serpentum Brasiliensium in 1824.

He becomes the director of the zoological museum of the university of Munich after the death of Spix in 1826. In 1827, it obtains a pulpit in this same university. Among its pupils, it is necessary to quote Louis Agassiz which had come to Germany to work with Martius and Lorenz Oken.

It makes appear Natürliches System der Amphibien in 1830, fruit ten year old of work. He works on an important brought back collection of the Brésil and publishes Monographia Psittacorum in 1832 in which he describes the blue Ara. A series of 36 boards, coloured with the hand, partly posthumously appear between 1828 and 1833, Descriptiones and Icones Amphibiorum .

Wagler dies accidentally in 32 years by cleaning its rifle.

List partial of the publications

Monographia Psittacorum (1832)
Serpentum Brasiliensium Species Novae (1824)
Descriptiones and Icones Amphibiorum (1828-1823)
Herpetology off Brazil (1981) (with Johann Baptist von Spix)

Sources

Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History off Herpetology , Society for the study off amphibians and reptiles.
Jean Lescure & Bernard Garff, etymology of the names of Amphibians and reptiles . Belin editions, 2006.

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