Heinrich Rudolf Schinz

Heinrich Rudolf Schinz ( born March 30, 1777 Zurich, † March 8, 1861 ) was a Swiss zoologist of the 19th century and the author of numerous monographs on individual species and the Swiss fauna.

Life

After Schinz had visited Zurich in high school, he went to study medicine in Würzburg and later to Jena, where he returned in 1798 as a physician to Zurich. There he became a teacher at the Medical Institute in 1804 and 1833, associate professor of natural history at the newly founded University of Zurich.

Schinz was a member of the Zurich Natural History Society, for which he served as secretary, board member and curator of the zoological collection. When the collection in 1837 passed into the possession of the Canton of Zurich, he remained their conservator.

As a zoologist were his specialty, the vertebrates, especially mammals ( mammalogy ) and birds (ornithology ), but he also translated Georges Cuvier's work, " Le règne animal" into German. Known to a wider public he was richly illustrated popular science books on vertebrate animals and the people who published 1824-1852.

Works

  • Natural History and pictures of mammals, Brodt 's lithographic Art Institute, Zurich 1st edition 1824 and 2nd edition 1927 improved
  • Natural History and pictures of people and mammals, Lithographic Institute J. Honegger, Zurich 1st edition undated (1835 )
  • Natural History and pictures of the people and of mammals, according to the latest discoveries and most exquisite original papers edited by HR Schinz. , Honeggersche Lithographic Institute, 2nd ed improved Zurich 184
  • Natural History and pictures of people and the different races and tribes according to the latest discoveries and most exquisite original papers, edited by HR Schinz. , Honeggersche Lithographic Institute, 3rd ed Advanced Zurich 1845
  • Systematic directory of all hitherto known mammals or Synopsis Mammalium, after Cuvier ' between system. Jent and Gassmann, Solothurn 1845
  • European fauna, or, directory of Vertebrates of Europe. Stuttgart in 1840 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.63801
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