Johann Baptist Von Spix
Dr. Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German naturalist. From his expeditions he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute an important basis for today's National Zoological Collection in Munich. Numerous instances of ethnographic collections such as dance masks and the like are now part of the collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Munich.
Due to his early death in 1826, Spix was unable to finish his scientific processing on most of his material. Louis Agassiz then continued the classification work that Spix started on freshwater fish in Brazil, thus finding one of the most important areas of study, the ichthyology. Maximilian Perty processed insects, and Johann Georg Wagler, assistant to Spix, named in his work Monographia Psittacorum the blue macaw species in honor of his late teacher. Since 1981 the Ritter-von-Spix-Medal especially honors benefactors and patrons of the State Zoological Collection, as well as theoretical advances in the taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution in the field of research.
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