Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino ( born September 18, 1854 in Luján, Argentina; † August 6, 1911 in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province) was an Argentine naturalist, zoologist, paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist.

Self-taught, he studied the areas of the southern Pampa. He put the largest collection of fossils of that time, which served him well in his important geological and paleontological studies important services. Furthermore, he investigated found in Argentine Chelles prehistoric man.

Ameghino was a pupil of Hermann Burmeister from Germany coming.

Ameghino was Professor of Zoology at the University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina), director of a department at the Museo de La Plata ( one of the largest paleontological, zoological and archaeological museums in South America ), and in 1902 director of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires.

In Oberá the Natural Science Museum and in Chubut, a dam was named after him. In the northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a city and Partido is named after him, also wearing a lunar crater named.

Works

  • De Recherches sur les morphology phylogénétique molaires supérieures of ongulés. 1904 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15704
  • Obras completas y correspondencia Científica. 1913 - 1936 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.60823
  • Doctrinas y descubrimientos / Florentino Ameghino. 2nd edition, 1917, doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.25533
  • 3rd Edition, 1923, doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.24935
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