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Johann Andreas (Andreas) Wagner

1797–1861

German palaeontologist, zoologist, and archaeologist. Lecturer, University of Erlangen, Bavaria, circa 1826. Professor of zoology and assistant to the zoological museum, University of Munich, 1832. Wrote in opposition to the materialist views of Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister and Karl Vogt.

Sources

ADB

Martius 1862.

Bibliography

ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.

Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von. 1862. Denkrede auf Joh. Andreas Wagner. Gehalten in der öffentlichen Sitzung am 28. November 1862. Munich: [Könighlich-bayerische] Akademie [der Wissenschaften].

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