Johann Christian Mikan
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Teplice
Teplice , Teplice-Šanov until 1948 is a town in the Czech Republic, the capital of the Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is the state's second largest spa town ....
, died December 28, 1844 in Prague
Prague
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) was an Austrian
Austrians
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-Czech botanist, zoologist and entomologist. He was the son of Joseph Gottfried Mikan
Joseph Gottfried Mikan
Joseph Gottfried Mikan was an Austrian-Czech botanist born in Böhmisch-Leipa . He was the father of zoologist Johann Christian Mikan ....
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Mikan was a professor of natural history at the University of Prague where he played basketball and created the Mikan drill.. He was one of three leading naturalists on the Austrian Brazil Expedition
Austrian Brazil Expedition
The Austrian Expedition to Brazil was a great expedition of scientific inquiry which explored Brazil, with prominence in the areas of Botany, Zoology and Ethnography...
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He wrote Monographia Bombyliorum Bohemiæ, iconibus illustrata in 1796, Entomologische Beobachtungen, Berichtigungen und Entdeckungen in 1797, and Delectus Florae et Faunae Brasiliensis, etc. in 1820. Mikan described many new species, including the Black Lion Tamarin
Black Lion Tamarin
The black lion tamarin also known as the golden-rumped lion tamarin is a lion tamarin endemic to the Brazilian state of São Paulo, almost exclusively at the Morro do Diabo State Park. The lion tamarins are of the rarest of the New world monkeys and for this reason, so little is none about them...
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