Giorgio Jan

Georg January ( born December 21, 1791 in Vienna, † May 8, 1866 in Milan ) was an Austrian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist and writer of Hungarian origin. He is also known as Giorgio January or Georges JAN.

After a time as an assistant at the University of Vienna in January received a professorship of botany at the University of Parma - which he held from 1816 to 1838 - and was also director of the botanical garden.

Giuseppe De Cristofori's left behind after his death in 1837 his natural history collection of the city of Milan, with the condition that it set up a museum and to entrust his friend Giorgio Jan. In his authority. Jan had also introduced his collection. In 1842 he gave up his professorship in Parma and moved to Milan to take up his work on the construction of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Jan's main interest was botany; important was his extensive collection of natural history documents that included fossils and minerals. Along with Giuseppe De Cristofori he published catalogs of fossil specimens that were offered in part for sale. These documents also new species were first described, mainly insects and molluscs, such as the Italian mud snail ( Viviparus ater). Furthermore jan described some snake species for the first time, and some colleagues named in his honor new snake species ( now regarded as a subspecies ): Hypsiglena torquata jani ( Duges, 1860) (English Texas Night Snake ) and Pituophis deppei jani ( Cope, 1861) ( engl. Mexican Pine Snake ).

Writings

• Catalogus plantarum phanerogamarum, ad usum botanophilorum exsiccatarum. In 1818.
• Elenchus plantarum que in horto Ducali parmesi Botanical Garden .... 1831st