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Andreas Fedor Jagor (30 November 1816 – 11 February 1900) was a German ethnology, Natural history and Exploration who traveled throughout Asia in the second half of the 19th century collecting for Berlin Museums."Fedor Jagor". German Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2012-0316., , (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Jagor, p. 132).
Since 1869, Jagor had been a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte), and on January 9, 1879, he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Jagor maintained an extensive correspondence with Rudolf Virchow and recorded his own travel experiences and observations in several books. He bequeathed his ethnographic collections, including 700 of photographs, to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.Platz R, Bautze J, Girke F, Noack G (2014). Myanmar im Spiegel der historischen Fotografie. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann & Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin). p. 11. (in German) His fortune and art collection were donated to the city of Berlin. Following a reburial, his tomb is located at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery.
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