Moritz Wagner

Moritz Wagner ( born October 3, 1813 in Bayreuth, † May 31, 1887 in Munich by suicide ) was a German traveler, geographer and naturalist.

Life

Moritz Wagner was born as the brother of the physiologist Rudolf Wagner and attended 1833-1836 the universities of Erlangen and Munich.

Between 1836 and 1838 Wagner traveled to Algeria, and later from 1842 to 1845 the coastal countries of the Black Sea, the Caucasus, Armenia, Kurdistan and Persia. From 1852 to 1855 he was with Carl Scherzer in North and Central America and the Caribbean go. In 1857 he went back to America and explored until 1860 the Andes from Panama to Ecuador.

In his research travels through Central and South America Wagner put to extensive natural history collections. He had a special interest in the study of the fish fauna and put on an extensive fish collection. Large parts of the material which he has gathered during his first trip, but declined due to poor preservation already lost along the way. The remaining material collection was destroyed by a major earthquake on April 16, 1854 in San Salvador. The second journey in the years 1858/1859 led Wagner to Panama and Ecuador. Wagner goes into the account of his second expedition in more detail on the places, rivers or catchments a, in which he has collected. Mostly found in this work also details of the type localities of the new species described by Rudolf Kner 1863 from the Wagner Collection.

Subsequently, Wagner was appointed Honorary Professor of Geography and Ethnography at the University of Munich. In 1862 he became an associate member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Works

  • Travel in the regency Algiers in 1836, 1837 and 1838. 3 vols Leipzig ( 1841)
  • The Caucasus and the land of the Cossacks. 2 vols Leipzig ( 1847)
  • Travel to Colchis. Leipzig ( 1850)
  • Trip to Mount Ararat and the highlands of Armenia. Stuttgart ( 1848)
  • Trip to Persia and the land of the Kurds. 2 vols Leipzig ( 1851)
  • The Republic of Costa Rica. Leipzig ( 1856)
  • About the hydrographic conditions and the occurrence of freshwater fish in the States Panama and Ecuador. Proceedings of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, II Classe 11 (I Dept. )
  • Natural Sciences Travel in tropical America. Stuttgart ( 1870)
  • The Darwinian theory and the law of migration of organisms. Leipzig ( 1868)
  • About the influence of geographical isolation and colony formation on the morphological changes of the organisms. Munich ( 1871)
  • Travel in North America in the years 1852 and 1853. Dr. Moritz Wagner and Dr. Carl Scherzer, Leipzig, Arnoldische Bookstore ( 1854)
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