Johann Andreas Wagner

Johann Andreas Wagner ( born March 21, 1797 in Nuremberg, † December 17, 1861 in Munich) was a German zoologist.

Life

Wagner was professor of zoology at the University of Munich. He dealt with mammals, molluscs and fossils. He described the data collected by Spix in Brazil snails and mussels (1827 ). Wagner studied in Erlangen, received his doctorate in 1826, qualified as a professor in Würzburg. He was from 1832 Adjunct of the Zoological State Collection in Munich under God Help Heinrich von Schuberth ( successor by JB von Spix ), later second curator of the Zoological State Collection Munich. Starting from 1835 a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

He was an opponent of Darwinism and followers of the biblical story of creation and also rejected the interpretation of the London specimen of Archaeopteryx found in 1861 as a transitional form of reptiles to birds from. For him it was just a Reptile ( by him Griphosaurus, Mystery lizard called ), the springs only adornment. This contributed to the fact that the British Museum was able to purchase the Fund.

In 1815 he was one of the founders of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg.

Works

  • Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere by Brasiliam 1817-1820 ... collegit et pingenda curavit JBSpix, ediderunt FaPaula de cabinet et CFP de Martius. - Monachii, Wolf [ Munich, Wolf ] 1827.
  • New systematic Conch Cabinet. Nuremberg 1829
  • Manual of natural history. 1830
  • The quadrupeds in illustrations from nature with descriptions. Erlangen from 1836 to 1855.
  • Contributions to the knowledge of warm-blooded vertebrates America. Munich 1837
  • Description of a newly discovered Ornithocephalus together with general observations on the organization of this genus. Munich 1837.
  • Fossil remains of a monkey and some other Säugthieren from Greece. Munich 1840
  • Description of some new or lesser known rodents. In: Archives of Natural History. Vol 1, 1842, pp. 1-33 (online, accessed on 13 August 2012).
  • History of the primeval world, with special emphasis on the human races and the Mosaic Schöpfüngsberichtes. Leipzig 1845
  • Rejection of the ... H. Burmeister in favor of the geological- vulkanistischen progress and to the detriment of the Mosaic creation certificates allegations ... An addendum to my story of the prehistoric world. Leipzig 1845
  • Science and the Bible in opposition to the blind faith of the Lord C. Vogt, etc. Stuttgart 1855
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the lithographic shales deposited in the primeval fish. Munich 1861
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