Angelo Heilprin
Angelo Heilprin (born March 31, 1853 in Sátoraljaújhely , † July 7, 1907 in New York ) was an American naturalist , geologist , paleontologist , artist and photographer.
Life
Angelo Heilprin grew up as the son of the biblical scholar Michael Heilprin (1823-1888) in northeast Hungary and had a brother with Louis Heilprin. In 1856 he emigrated to the United States with his father. A few years later he returned to Europe and studied from 1876 to 1878 at the Royal School of Mines in London , the Imperial Geological Society in Vienna as well as in Florence and Geneva . He then traveled back to the USA.
From 1880 to 1900 Heilprin held the chairs for paleontology of invertebrates and geology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and was also the responsible curator of the museum there between 1883 and 1892. In addition, he worked from 1885 to 1890 as a lecturer in geology at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, also based in Philadelphia, and was the first president of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia with a term of seven years. In 1886 he took a trip to Florida to study the geological structure of the peninsula and two years later he did research in Bermuda with the same goal . Angelo Heilprin organized an expedition to Mexico in 1890 for research on the central plateau and in the course of this he climbed the volcanoes Iztaccíhuatl , Citlaltépetl and Popocatépetl , the height of which he determined using barometric measurements . Heilprin also did research in the polar regions and appeared, for example, in 1892 as leader of the Robert Edwin Pearys expedition to Greenland . In 1900 he accepted an offer from Yale University for a chair in geography.
In 1901/1902 he initiated the founding of the American Alpine Club .
Angelo Heilprin achieved great fame through his investigations on the Montagne Pelée volcano on the French Caribbean island of Martinique , which he traveled to in 1902 after its catastrophic eruption with 30,000 dead. He climbed the mountain, climbed into the crater and created a photo series of the volcano and the destruction that is still very well known today, which also made him extremely well-known outside the scientific community. The following year he visited the island again.
In 1905 he was involved with his brother in the creation of the new edition of the local dictionary Lippincott's New Gazetteer . Angelo Heilprin died in 1907 at the age of only 54. He was posthumously honored as the namesake of two animal species:
- in the family of corvids in the genus Blauraben , the species Lilac Blue Raven received the Latin name Cyanocorax heilprini ;
- the tree frog Hypsiboas heilprini is also named after him.
Since 1883 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .
Artistic work
In addition to his scientific work, Angelo Heilprin was also active as an artist at times. In 1880, for example, he presented the painting Autumn's First Whisper at the renowned Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1883, the Forest Exiles show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston followed .
Publications (selection)
- 1884: Contributions to the Tertiary Geology and Palæontology of the United States
- 1885: Town Geology, the Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks
- 1887: The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals
- 1888: The Geological Evidences of Evolution
- 1889: Physical History and Zoology of the Bermuda Islands
- 1890: Principles of Geology
- 1893: The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition
- 1896: The Earth and Its Story
- 1899: Alaska and the Klondike
- 1903: Mount Pelée and the Tragedy of Martinique
- 1905: The Tower of Pelée
Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 281.
- ^ History of The American Alpine Club. (No longer available online.) American Alpine Club, archived from the original on October 28, 2013 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Member History: Angelo Heilprin. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www25.us.archive.org/stream/exhibitionworks00bostgoog/exhibitionworks00bostgoog_djvu.txt
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heilprin, Angelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American naturalist, geologist, paleontologist and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sátoraljaújhely |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1907 |
| Place of death | New York City |