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August Friedrich Schweigger

August Friedrich Schweigger (8 September 1783 – 28 June 1821) was a German naturalist born in Erlangen. He was the younger brother of scientist Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779-1857).

August Friedrich Schweigger

(1783-09-08)September 8, 1783

June 28, 1821(1821-06-28) (aged 37)

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Natural history

He studied medicine, zoology and botany at Erlangen, and following graduation spent time in Berlin (from 1804) and Paris (from 1806). In 1809 he was appointed professor of botany and medicine at the University of Königsberg. In 1815, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. On a research trip to Sicily, he was murdered near Agrigento on 28 June 1821.


The plant genus Schweiggeria from the family Violaceae is named in his honor.[1]


In the scientific field of herpetology, he is best known for his 1812 monograph of turtles, in which he described several new species which are still valid.

Pelusios adansonii

Adanson's mud turtle

Geochelone gigantea

Aldabra giant tortoise

Podocnemis expansa

South American river turtle

Peltocephalus dumerilianus

Big-headed Amazon River turtle

Mesoclemmys nasuta

Common toad-headed turtle

Kinixys erosa

Serrated hinge-back tortoise

Phrynops geoffroanus

Geoffroy's side-necked turtle

Mesoclemmys gibba

Gibba turtle

Melanochelys trijuga

Indian black turtle

Chersina angulata

South African bowsprit tortoise

Mauremys leprosa

Mediterranean turtle

Pelusios castaneus [2]

West African mud turtle

Schweigger is the taxonomic authority of Chelydra, a genus of snapping turtles.


In 1812 he described as new species the following 12 species of turtles and tortoises.

Specimen flora erlangensis, 1805.

Kranken- und Armenanstalten in Paris (Medical and charitable institutions in Paris), Bayreuth: Lübeck, 1809.

Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem. 1: 271-368, 406-458, 1812.

Einige Worte über Classification der Thiere, (Treatise on the classification of animals), 1812.

Prodromi monographiae cheloniorum, 1814.

Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen (Observations on trips). Berlin, 1819.

natural history

Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der skelettlosen ungegliederten Tiere (Textbook of natural history on unsegmented ). Leipzig, 1820.

invertebrates

De plantarum classificatione naturalis, 1821.

"The Life and Herpetological Contributions of August Friedrich Schweigger" (Published in English); Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2008.

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@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

August Friedrich Schweigger

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