Leopold Fitzinger

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Leopold Fitzinger.

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (April 13, 1802 - September 20, 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.

Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum between 1817, when he joined as a volunteer assistant, and 1827, when he left to become secretary to the provincial legislature of Lower Austria; after a hiatus he was appointed assistant curator in 1844 and remained at the Naturhistorisches Museum until 1861.[1] Later he became director of the zoos of Munich and Budapest.

In 1826 he published Neue Classification der Reptilien, based partly on the work of his friends Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich and Heinrich Boie. In 1843 he published Systema Reptilium, covering geckos, chameleons and iguanas.

Works[2]

  • Fitzinger LJFJ. 1826. Neue classification der reptilien nach ihren natürlichen verwandtschaften. Nebst einer verwandtschafts-tafel und einem verzeichnisse der reptilien-sammlung des K. K. zoologischen museum's zu Wien (New classification of reptiles according to their natural relationships, appended to a table of their relationships and a sketch of the reptile collection of the imperial and royal zoological museum of Vienna). J.G. Hübner, Wien. vii, 66 pp.
  • Fitzinger LJFJ. 1835. Entwurf einer systematischen Anordnung der Schildkröten nach den Grundsätzen der natürlichen Methode (Draft of a systematic arrangement of turtles based on the principles of the natural method)
  • Fitzinger LJFJ. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel, Wien: 106 pp.
  • Fitzinger LJFJ. 1850. Über den Proteus anguinus der Autoren (On the author's Proteus anguinus)
  • Fitzinger LJFJ. 1861. A catalog of the reptiles and amphibians collected during the Novara expedition.

Notes

  1. ↑ [http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/research/1_zoology_vertebrates/herpetological_collection/history/the_herpetological_collection Naturhistorisches museum wien
  2. ↑ As given in the website of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
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