Pablo de La Llave, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican scientist, priest, politician and naturalist (1773–1833)
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1773
Place of Birth: Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1833
Profession: naturalist, politician, Catholic priest, painter, ornithologist, botanist
Nationality: Spain, Mexico
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Pablo de La Llave
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- Pablo de la Llave (1773–1833) was a Mexican Catholic priest, politician, and naturalist. He was born to a wealthy family and grew up in Córdoba, Veracruz.
- After a brilliant university career, he became a teacher in the national college of St.
- John Lateran and doctor of theology at what was then the University of Mexico.
- He was a famous preacher and made some translations from Hebrew.
- He went to Europe and lived for some time in Paris.
- After this he became deputy director of the Madrid Museum of Natural History under the Bonapartist kingdom.
- In 1811 and 1812 he assisted José Mariano Mociño in organizing the collections of the Nueva España Expedition (1787–1803) to survey the natural history of Mexico.
- In 1820 and 1821 he represented the state of Veracruz in the Spanish legislature, where he was a liberal.On his return to Mexico after it declared independence, he held church positions including treasurer of the church at Morelia (then called Valladolid), Michoacán.
- By 1823 he was Minister of Justice and of Church Matters in the imperial administration of Agustín de Iturbide.
- In 1824, the first president of Mexico, Guadalupe Victoria, named him to the new cabinet.
- He also held the office of senator for Veracruz.
- Politically, Llave has been considered a liberal and an obedient follower of the republican priest and politician Miguel Ramos Arizpe.In biology, he and his collaborator Juan José Martínez de Lejarza es:Juan José Martinez de Lexarza (or Lexarza) were the first to systematically study the orchids of Michoacán.
- In 1824 they published a work describing about 50 species.In 1831 La Llave was designated to direct the National Museum of Natural History of Mexico.
- In 1832 and 1833 he published ornithological papers in a short-lived Mexican journal in which he described and named several birds, of which the rufous-tailed hummingbird and the much more famous resplendent quetzal were new to science.
- Because of the obscurity of the journal, he did not receive credit for a few decades, and some sources incorrectly give the date of the paper as 1871, possibly the date of a republication. Llave died in Córdoba in July, 1833.General Ignacio de la Llave was a nephew of his.
- The fern genus Llavea was named in his honour.
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