Fedor Jagor

The recorded working language is German and English. The field of work recorded is ethnology, travel book and travel. Places of work recorded in the authority are Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Works named in the authority record are Reisen in den Philippinen. Work by Fedor Jagor is recorded in the collections of Netherlands Photo Museum and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam.

• Name — Fedor Jagor • Born — 30 November 1816 • Died — 11 February 1900 • Resting Place — Southwest Cemetery in Stahnsdorf • Occupation — Ethnologist, naturalist and explorer

Fedor Jagor dealt with ethnography inspired by a visit to Paris. On behalf of the Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin, he traveled extensively to South and Southeast Asia collecting for the museum. From 1857 to 1861, he was in India, East Asia, including Burma, and the Pacific Islands. He stayed on the island of Java and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago from 1873 to 1876 and from 1890 to 1893. Since 1869, Jagor had been a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte), and on January 9, 1879, he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Jagor maintained an extensive correspondence with Rudolf Virchow and recorded his own travel experiences and observations in several books. He bequeathed his ethnographic collections, including 700 paper negatives of photographs, to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. His fortune and art collection were donated to the city of Berlin. Following a reburial, his tomb is located at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.

• Jagor's sphenomorphus, Pinoyscincus jagori W. Peters, 1864 • Water snake, Enhydris jagorii W. Peters, 1863 • Greater Musky Fruit Bat, Ptenochirus jagori W. Peters, 1861 • Peters' Trumpet-eared Bat, Phoniscus jagorii W. Peters, 1866 • Late Devonian rhenanid placoderm, Jagorina pandora O. Jaekel, 1921

Fedor Jagor is recorded with the occupation zoological collector. Recorded as explorer, photographer, naturalist, ethnologist and traveler.