João Guilherme Fischer
| João Guilherme Fischer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 9, 1876 Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul |
| Died |
2 February 1952 (aged 75) Rio de Janeiro |
| Residence | Brazil, Chile and France |
| Nationality | Brazil |
João Guilherme Fischer, known as Jango Fischer, was born on September 9, 1876 in Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and died on February 2, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of Guilherme Fischer and Christina Holzbach.[1]
Biography
Technical agriculture by the School of Agriculture and Viticulture of Taquari in 1894 and agronomic engineer in 1898. After he graduated in pharmacy and medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro. Do not follow any of these careers, entering the diplomacy. He was vice consul in Cobija, Chile, in 1909, served in the office of Baron of Rio Branco until 1911, in Paris from 1911 to 1934 and the Foreign Ministry from 1934 to 1944.[2]
In 1902, he collected fossils in the Sanga da Alemoa and sent to Prof.. Dr. Hermann von Ihering, then director of the Museu Paulista in Sao Paulo. Three vertebral bodies were nearly complete, a fragment of a vertebra, one finger and four phalanges and ungual phalanx alone. The material was sent to Arthur Smith Woodward, the eminent paleontologist of the British Museum in London to study, which resulted in the determination of the first terrestrial reptile fossil in South America, the Rhynchosaur named by Woodward, with the name of Scaphonyx fischeri, in his honor . It officially started paleontological research in Paleorrota.
References
- Book Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia. Author : Antônio Isaia. Publisher Pallotti. (Portuguese)
- Book: "Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e do extinto município de São Martinho." 1787-1933. Vol I. Author: Romeu Beltrão, Publisher Pallotti, 1958. (Portuguese)