Career
Fedor Jagor dealt with ethnography inspired by a visit to Paris. On behalf of the Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin, he traveled extensively to South and Southeast Asia collecting for the museum. From 1859 to 1861, he was in India, East Asia and the Pacific Islands.
He stayed on the island of Java and the rest of the Indonesian archipelago from 1873 to 1876 and from 1890 to 1893.
Jagor had an extensive correspondence with Rudolf Virchow and held his travel experiences and observations established in several books He bequeathed his ethnographic collections to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.
His fortune and art collection were donated to the city of Berlin. His tomb is located after the reburial at the Southwest Cemetery of Berlin in Stahnsdorf (Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf).
J. J. X. Sphenomorphus, Sphenomorphus jagori Peters, 1864 Water snake, Enhydris jagorii Peters, 1863 Greater Musky Fruit Bat, Ptenochirus jagori Peters, 1861 Peters" Trumpet-eared Bat, Phoniscus jagorii Peters, 1866.