Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
While revisiting some birds described by von Spix I came across this bird, and guy, commemorated in ...
blumenbachii as in
• the Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii VON SPIX 1825 (here and Plate here) ... no dedication, nor any explanation (at least not from what I can tell).
Today's HBW Alive Key explain this eponym as:
Born 11 May 1752, in Gotha ... died, in Göttingen, 22 January 1840.
See Encyclopædia Britannica, here, The Royal Society, here, ... and elsewhere, all over. Tomb stone, here (from German Wiki, here), English Wiki here.
For what it´s worth ...
Björn
blumenbachii as in
• the Red-billed Curassow Crax blumenbachii VON SPIX 1825 (here and Plate here) ... no dedication, nor any explanation (at least not from what I can tell).
Today's HBW Alive Key explain this eponym as:
... but ... didn´t he, .... (that is, of course, if it´s the same guy); the fairly well-known Johann Friedrich Blumenbach [German Dr (physician), naturalist (paleontologist, zoologist, etc., etc.) and anthropologist] ... die in 1840 !?
Born 11 May 1752, in Gotha ... died, in Göttingen, 22 January 1840.
See Encyclopædia Britannica, here, The Royal Society, here, ... and elsewhere, all over. Tomb stone, here (from German Wiki, here), English Wiki here.
For what it´s worth ...
Björn
