Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (31 March 1821 – 21 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller, and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina. There he studied the natural history of the Atlantic forest south of São Paulo, and was an early advocate of Darwinism. He lived in Brazil for the rest of his life. Müllerian mimicry is named after him.
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Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller 31 March 1821 Windischholzhausen, Erfurt, Germany
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21 May 1897 (aged 76) Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Zodiac | Aries |
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