Vladimir Wagner

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Wagner (or Vagner: Russian: Владимир Александрович Вагнер); born 1849 in Kaluga, died March 8, 1934, in Leningrad, was a Russian psychologist and naturalist known for his studies of comparative and evolutionary psychology.^[1][2][3] He was also a student of spiders, and in 1882 proposed the first classification of spider families based on copulatory organs.^[4]

He studied law at Moscow University and from 1882, the natural sciences. After earning a doctorate in zoology, he began teaching 1895 at the Institute of Psycho-Neurology St. Petersburg.

References

1. Jaan Valsiner; Rene van der Veer (2000). The Social Mind: Construction of the Idea. Cambridge University Press. pp. 357–359. ISBN 978-0-521-58973-4.
2. Vucinich, Alexander (1988). Darwin in Russian Thought. University of California Press. pp. 153–185. ISBN 978-0-520-06283-2.
3. Русские биологи-эволюционисты до Дарвина. Материалы к истории эволюционной идеи в России [Russian Evolutionary Biologists Before Darwin. Materials for the History of Evolutionary Ideas in Russia] (in Russian). Alexander Doweld. 1951. p. 415. GGKEY:D8T75RNY5X8.
4. Mikhailov, K. G. (2004). "A brief historical overview of the development of arachnology in Russia" (PDF). In Logunov DV & Penney D. European Arachnology 2003. Special Issue Number 1. Arthropoda Selecta. pp. 21–34. ISSN 0136-006X.