Jacques Von Bedriaga

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jacques Vladimir von Bedriaga; (last name sometimes spelled Bedryagha) (1854-1906) was a Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow University under the direction of Anatoli Bogdanov (1834-1896), and afterwards moved to Germany, where he studied at the University of Jena with Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) and Carl Gegenbaur (1826-1903). In 1875 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis concerning the urogenital organs of reptiles. After graduation, Bedriaga continued his research on reptiles with Gegenbaur, and made frequent scientific trips to regions around the Mediterranean. In 1880 he published an important work on Greek herpetology called Die Amphibien und Reptilien Griechenlands. He also made occasional visits back to Russia, where he studied collections reported from Russian expeditions to Central Asia, including those of Nikolai Przewalski (1839-1888). In 1881 he moved to Nice for reasons of health, and later lived in Florence, where he died in 1906.