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Natterer, Johann#

b. Laxenburg (Lower Austria), Nov. 9, 1787, d. Vienna, June 17, 1843, zoologist, uncle of Johann August Natterer and Josef Natterer. Explorer, collector of outstanding merit. In 1817 took part in the expeditions on the nuptial ships of Archduchess Leopoldine; until 1836 travelled through Brazil compiling a collection of 12,293 birds and 24,000 insects, which he brought to the Natural History Collection in Vienna, now Museum of Natural History, which also holds his collection of indigenous mammals. A large part of his collection was destroyed in a fire. Natter donated a collection of foreign jewellery and objects from every day life to the Austrian Museum of Ethnology.

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