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Jakob von Tschudi (born 25 July 1818, died 8 October 1889) was a
Swiss naturalist, explorer and diplomat.   Tschudi was born in
Glarus, and studied natural sciences and medicine at the
universities of Neuchâtel, Leiden and Paris. In 1838 he
travelled to Peru, where he remained for five years exploring
and collecting plants in the Andes. He went to Vienna in 1843.
Between 1857 and 1859 he visited Brazil and other countries in
South America.  In 1860 he was appointed Swiss ambassador to
Brazil, remaining so until 1868, and again spent time exploring
the country and collecting plants for the museums of Neuchâtel,
Glarus, and Freiburg. In 1868 he became minister to Vienna.   He
wrote a textbook on Peru called Peruvian antiquities in which he
recorded various aspects of Peruvian life and history.[1] In his
book he explained the various skull angles of Peruvians in the
context of the Angle o