Quotes:Tschudi, Johann Jacob von

Zirkoff, Boris

Tschudi, Johann Jacob von. Swiss traveller and naturalist, b. at Glarus, 1818; d. 1889. Studied at Leyden and Paris. Went to Peru, 1838, where he spent five years investigating the natural history and ethnography of the country. Settled in Austria and was from 1866 to 1883 Swiss ambassador, first at Vienna and later in Brazil. His writings deal mainly with Peruvian fauna, the Quichua language and Peruvian antiquities; among these valuable works are: Die Kechua Sprache, Vienna, 1853, 3 vols.—Kulturgeschichte und sprachliche Beiträge zur Kenntniss des alten Peru, Vienna, 1891.— Reisen durch Südamerika, Leipzig, 1866-69.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 546