Johann Jakob von Tschudi

Johann Jakob von Tschudi ( born July 25, 1818 in Glarus, † October 8, 1889 in Lichtenegg near Wiener Neustadt ) was a Swiss naturalist, explorer, linguist and diplomat who has written several works for the Quechua language.

Life

From Tschudi studied in Leiden, Neuchâtel, Zurich and Paris, and later in Berlin and Würzburg science, toured from 1838 to 1843 in Peru, lived since 1848 on his estate Jakobshof in Lichtenegg (Lower Austria ), toured from 1857 to 1859 in Brazil, the La Plata States, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. From Tschudi learned in Lima Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, director of the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru, know, and was under joint study co - author of the book Antigüedades Peruanas, which was published in 1851 in Vienna. 1859 by Tschudi went as ambassador of Switzerland to Brazil, where he notably also for the study of immigration conditions, the central and southern provinces visited, returned in 1861 back, went in 1866 as Swiss charge d'affaires to Vienna and in 1868 there was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Since 1883 he again lived on his estate.

Works

• System of batrachians ( Neuchâtel 1838)
• Studies on the Fauna peruana (St. Gallen 1844-47, with 76 panels )
• The Kechuasprache (Vienna, 1853, 3 Tle )
• Ollanta, a altperuanisches Drama, translated from the Kechuasprache and commented (ibid. 1875)
• Organism of Khetsuasprache (Leipzig 1884)
• Peru, travel sketches (St. Gallen, 1846, 2 vols )
• Antiguedades peruanas ( with Don Mariano de Rivero, Vienna 1851, with Atlas )
• Traveling through South America (Leipzig 1866-69, 5 vols )

In his work, The Naturalist in Nicaragua ( 1873 edition, page 120) is mentioned by Tschudi from the English naturalist Thomas Belt in connection with the classification of the domestic dog of the Indians tropical America. From Tschudi represents the Indians two breeds that: Canis caraibicus ( Lesson ) and Canis Ingae ( Tschudi ).