%0 Journal Article
%T Christofredo Jakob as a naturalist: The 1923 scientific voyage aboard HSDG Cap Polonio to La Tierra del Fuego - Christofredo Jakob, naturalista: la traves¨ªa cient¨ªfica de 1923 en el Cap Polonio a Tierra del Fuego. Bilingual edition - Edici¨®n biling¨¹e.
%A Lazaros C. Triarhou
%J Electroneurobiolog¨ªa
%D 2007
%I 
%X A "Rennaissance amplitude" of scientific interests brands Christfried Jakob's neurobiological tradition. It requires from researchers to furnish every acquisition of data - whether observational, experimental or clinical - with context in other sciences and humanities. The criterion arrived to Jakob transmitted by his master and friend Adolf von Str¨¹mpell, whose father in turn cultivated it in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia), in the line of theoretical biology and philosophy going from Burdach and von Baer to von Uexk¨¹ll and Kalevi Kull. On this criterion, besides his lifelong research pursuits in comparative and human neuroscience, the multifarious Professor Christofredo Jakob integrated intellectual interests spanning over a wide spectrum of fields, and put forward to his disciples a taste for their serious parallel cultivation. Such fields include general biology, anthropology, paleontology, biogeography, philosophy, and music. A landmark experience in Jakob's studious itinerary must have been his 1923 voyage to Tierra del Fuego on board the steamer Cap Polonio. Jakob presented a narrative of his impressions at the 12th ordinary session of the Popular Institute of Conferences, held on Sept. 5, 1924 in Buenos Aires. He studied the geography, marine biology, fauna and flora of Patagonia, and gathered a great collection of specimens and documents. The original text of his lecture, published in the 1926 Proceedings of the Institute, is reproduced herein. Jakob covers elements from the geography, history of explorations, fauna, and flora of Tierra del Fuego; he details the stops made and the species observed. Photographic documentation has been added to help recreate the journey's biological and historical atmosphere. RESUMEN: La "amplitud renacentista" de intereses cient¨ªficos propia de la neurobiolog¨ªa en la tradici¨®n acad¨¦mica de Christofredo Jakob, que exige contextuar en otras ciencias y humanidades cada adquisici¨®n de datos observacionales, experimentales o cl¨ªnicos, fu¨¦le transmitida a Jakob por su maestro y amigo Adolf von Str¨¹mpell, cuyo padre la cultivaba en Dorpat (hoy Tartu, Estonia) en la l¨ªnea de biolog¨ªa te¨®rica y filosof¨ªa que va de Burdach y von Baer a von Uexk¨¹ll y Kalevi Kull. Debido a tal criterio el multifario profesor Jakob, a m¨¢s de perseguir toda su vida metas de investigaci¨®n en neurociencia comparada y humana, tambi¨¦n integr¨® y ense ¨® a sus disc¨ªpulos el gusto de cultivar con seriedad profesional intereses intelectuales que cubr¨ªan un amplio espectro de campos disciplinarios, incluyendo biolog¨ªa general, antropolog¨ªa, paleontolog¨ªa
%K History of Neuroscience
%K History of Biology
%K Argentina
%K neurobiology
%K naturalism
%K explorations
%K Ona
%K Yahgan
%K onas
%K yaganes
%U http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/Triarhou_Christfried_Jakob_explores_Tierra_del_Fuego.htm