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Last Name Spix

Given Name Johann Baptist

alt. Names J. B. v. S. ;

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Year born 1781 in Höchstadt an der Aisch

Year died 1826

Place of death Munich

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Country of Activity Brazil

Worked for Michael Pius Erdl (1815-1848) ; Abhandlung über die Affen der alten und der neuen Welt im Allgemeinen ... (München 1914) ;

Patronage Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859) ;

Collaborators Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) ; Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) ; Johann Georg Wagler (1800-1832) ;

Techniques mammal, natural, zoological, and ornithological drawing and watercolour painting ; hand-colouring ;

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Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_von_Spix ; http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/NHRareBooks/Spix/spix-introduction.htm ;

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1303 & 3944; Kury 2014: 146-7, 172-3, 182-3 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Brazil, he took part at the Austrian Expedition to Brazil (Österreichische Brasilien-Expedition) (1817-1835) and Germany.

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