Johann Jakob Von Kaup
Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup is also known for having coined popular prehistoric taxa like ''Pterosaur, Pterosauria'' and ''Machairodus''. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum, of which in 1840 he became inspector. In 1829 he published ''Skizze zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der europäischen Thierwelt'', in which he regarded the animal world as developed from lower to higher forms, from the amphibians through the birds to the beasts of prey; but subsequently he repudiated this work as a youthful indiscretion, and on the publication of Charles Darwin, Darwi ...
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Kaup Johann Jakob 1803-1873
Kaup may refer to: *Kapu, Karnataka (AKA Kaup), a village in Udupi district, Karnataka, India *Kaup (emporium), an early medieval trade settlement in the Curonian Lagoon *Heinrich Kaup (1912–1999), highly decorated Feldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II *Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873), German naturalist *Kaup–Kupershmidt equation, the nonlinear fifth-order partial differential equation {{disambig, geo, surname ...
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