Johann Christian Mikan(born 5 December 1769 inTeplitz,died 28 December 1844 inPrague) was anAustrian-Czechbotanist,zoologistandentomologist.He was the son ofJoseph Gottfried Mikan.[1]
Career
editMikan was a professor of natural history at the University of Prague.[2]He was one of three leading naturalists on theAustrian Brazil Expedition.[3]
He wroteMonographia Bombyliorum Bohemiæ, iconibus illustratain 1796,Entomologische Beobachtungen, Berichtigungen und Entdeckungenin 1797, andDelectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis, etc.in 1820.[4]Mikan described many new species, including theblack lion tamarin.
Mikan is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American snake,Dipsas mikanii.[5]
The genusMikaniaWilld.(Asteraceae) was named for his father Joseph Gottfried Mikan (1743–1814), professor of botany and chemistry at the Prague University.
See also
editBibliography
editReferences
edit- ^Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000).CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: M-Q.CRC Press. p. 1690.ISBN978-0-8493-2677-6.Retrieved23 April2012.
- ^Adam, Thomas, ed. (2005).Germany and the Americas: O-Z.ABC-CLIO. p. 809.ISBN978-1-85109-628-2.Retrieved23 April2012.
- ^"1–3 December 2006: Eduard Suess-Symposium in Vienna – The Sternberg Project, University of Vienna".Archived fromthe originalon 25 February 2007.
- ^"Amazon.co.uk: Johann Christian Mikan: Books".amazon.co.uk.
- ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5.( "Mikan", p. 178).
- ^International Plant Names Index.J.C.Mikan.
Further reading
edit- Anonymous (1852). [Mikan, J. C.]Lotos2:63–65.
- Eiselt JN (1836).Geschichte, Systematik und Literatur der Insectenkunde, von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart. Als Handbuch für den Jünger und als Repertorium für den Meister der Entomologie bearbeitet.Leipzig: C. H. F. Hartmann. (in German).
- Evenhuis NL (1997).Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum(1758–1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden. (in Latin).
- Stearn T (1956). "Mikan'sDelectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis".J. Soc. Bibliog.Nat. Hist.3(3): 135–136doi:10.3366/jsbnh.1956.3.3.135.
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