The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wagner, Moritz

WAGNER, väg'nĕr, Moritz, German naturalist: b. Baireuth, 3 Oct. 1813; d. Munich, 31 May 1887. He studied at Erlangen and Munich and made extensive scientific journey in 1852-55 through North and Central America and the West Indies; in 1857-60 through the Andes from Panama to Ecuador. He was made professor of geography and ethnology at Munich. Among his writings are &lsquo;Travels in the Regency of Algiers&rsquo; (1841); &lsquo;The Caucasus and the Land of the Cossacks&rsquo; (1847); &lsquo;Journey to Colchis&rsquo; (1850); &lsquo;Journey to Ararat and the Armenian Highlands&rsquo; (1848); &lsquo;Travels in Persia and in the Land of the Kurds&rsquo; (1851); &lsquo;Scientific Travels in Tropical America&rsquo; (1870); &lsquo;The Darwinian Theory and the Law of Migration of Organisms&rsquo; (1868).