Janis Roze

Jānis Arnolds Roze, born in Latvia in 1926, is a herpetologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus of City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York.[1] He was professionally associated with the American Museum of Natural History and the United Nations.[1] A founder of the International Center for Integrative Studies,[1] he published several books and narrated several videos on Creative Evolution. He co-edited What Does it Mean to Be Human.[2]

Biography

A short résumé from the "Be Human" film site of The Ecological Institute of Búzios, Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil:[3]

  • Fulbright Senior Scholar.
  • Co-Director of UASD International Exchange Program of University of New York.
  • Advisor at United Nations Center of Science and Technology.
  • Member of the expert group of UN for the establishment of a new international order.
  • Member of the ICIS (International Center of Integrative Studies), and Elpis Foundation, Argentina.

Published works

Books

  • Coral Snakes of the Americas: Biology , Identification, and Venoms. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. (1996).[4]

Other publications

  • On Hallowell's type specimens of reptiles from Venezuela in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (1958).
  • Taxonomic notes on a collection of Venezuelan reptiles in the American Museum of Natural History. (1959).
  • La taxonomía y zoogeografía de los ofidios en Venezuela. (1966). (in Spanish).
  • A check list of the New World venomous coral snakes (Elapidae), with descriptions of new forms. (1967).
  • Ciencia y fantasía sobre las serpentes de Venezuela. (1970). (in Spanish).
  • New Species and Subspecies of Coral Snakes, Genus Micrurus (Elapidae), with Notes on Type Specimens of Several Species. American Museum Novitates. (1989).[5]
  • Evolución y magia: el camino del hombre. (2000). (in Spanish).

Awards

Eponyms

A species of worm lizard, Amphisbaena rozei, is named in his honor.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pages. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Roze, page 228).
  2. ↑ What Does it Mean to Be Human? : reverence for life reaffirmed by responses from around the world. [edited by] Frederick Franck, Janis Roze and Richard Connoly. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, August 2000. 288 pages. ISBN 978-0-312-27101-5.
  3. ↑ "JANIS ROZE. BE HUMAN – SER HUMANO – Una serie de documantales para televisión, producidas por el INSTITUTO ECOLOGICO BÚZIOS MATA ATLANTICA, con el soporte de inversores privados, y la cooperación de científicos de UNESCO, del Museo Americano de Historia Natural de New York, y de City University of New York. DESCUBRA EL VERDADERO SIGNIFICADO Y PROPOSITO DE SER HUMANO". Archived from the original on 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  4. ↑ Roze, Janis A. (1996). Coral Snakes of the Americas: Biology, Identifications, and Venoms. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89464-847-0. OCLC 28181835. xii + 328 pp., 38 maps, 63 color photographs, 49 color pattern drawings.
  5. ↑ Roze, Janis A. (1989). "New Species and Subspecies of Coral Snakes, Genus Micrurus (Elapidae), with Notes on Type Specimens of Several Species". American Museum Novitates (2932): 1–15. OCLC 19687793.
  6. ↑ "Universidade concede título de honoris causa ao prof. Janis Roze - PUC Notícias ". Archived from the original on 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2025-02-12. (in Spanish).
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