Christofredo Jakob as a naturalist: The 1923 scientific voyage aboard HSDG Cap Polonio to La Tierra del Fuego - Christofredo Jakob, naturalista: la travesía científica de 1923 en el Cap Polonio a Tierra del Fuego. Bilingual edition - Edición bilingüe.

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 Strümpell, 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 Uexküll 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 científicos propia de la neurobiología en la tradición académica de Christofredo Jakob, que exige contextuar en otras ciencias y humanidades cada adquisición de datos observacionales, experimentales o clínicos, fuéle transmitida a Jakob por su maestro y amigo Adolf von Strümpell, cuyo padre la cultivaba en Dorpat (hoy Tartu, Estonia) en la línea de biología teórica y filosofía que va de Burdach y von Baer a von Uexküll y Kalevi Kull. Debido a tal criterio el multifario profesor Jakob, a más de perseguir toda su vida metas de investigación en neurociencia comparada y humana, también integró y ense ó a sus discípulos el gusto de cultivar con seriedad profesional intereses intelectuales que cubrían un amplio espectro de campos disciplinarios, incluyendo biología general, antropología, paleontología