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John Xantus de Vesey
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Image:XantusJ Napkelet grafika.png thumb|150px|right|Portrait in the Lexikon of Napkelet, 1927
'''John Xantus de Vesey''' (born '''János Xántus''') (
October 5,
1825 -
December 13,
1894) was a
Hungary Hungarian-born exile and
United States American zoologist. Trained as a lawyer, John Xantus (the aristocratic title de Vesey was an affectation, of which he had several variations) served as an officer in the nationalist uprisings of
1848 in the Hungarian Army. He was captured and exiled to
Prague, arrested again, and escaped to the United States via
England. In the US he pursued a variety of occupations, including bookseller, druggist, teacher and, hospital steward in the
United States Army US Army. In the army he met the surgeon Dr W.A. Hammond, who was a collector for the noted zoologist
Spencer Fullerton Baird. Working under Hammond as an assistant surgeon, he soon developed an interest in
natural history and became gifted collector himself. He managed to use the support of Baird and the soon to be
Surgeon General Hammond, getting them to write letters of recommendation on his behalf. On the basis of these he was given a consular position in
Mexico, a position he promptly lost after embarrassing the
State Department by recognising a local rebelling war lord. Soon after this he returned to Hungary.
For thirty years until his death in
1894 he served as the Director of the
Zoological Garden of Budapest and as Curator of
Ethnography at the National Museum, as well as undertaking collecting expeditions in
Asia.
In
ornithology he is remembered as having given his name to the
Xantus's Murrelet and
Xantus's Hummingbird, he also left his name to several fish species.
Category:1825 births Xantus de Vesey, John
Category:1894 deaths Xantus de Vesey, John
Category:American ornithologists Xantus de Vesey
Category:American zoologists Xantus de Vesey, John
Category:Hungarian ornithologists Xantus de Vesey
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