Arthur Foehl

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Arthur Otto Foehl, Jr. (* 1900 or 1901; † January 18, 1948 in Singapore ) was a zoologist and wildlife collector.

His parents ran the restaurant at the Philadelphia Zoo . From the age of seven he went to the zoo daily, helped with the feeding and became a zoo enthusiast.

He lived in West Philadelphia for a long time . He was known for his collection of reptiles and amphibians . The German traders had lost their hegemony in 1918 with the loss of the colonies and their special transport ships. After Foehl had some European lizards ( Lacerta ) escaped in the summer of 1927 , they multiplied under American railroad tracks.

He moved to Williamstown (New Jersey) , where he left his house a 9 acre large menagerie held.

In addition to his daughter Betty Jane, he and his wife Marie had another daughter who died early. As a foster child, they took in Genevieve Cuprys (* 1925 Jenny , Jean Armstrong) from Holland , whose mother had died.

After working as a dealer for 23 years, he began collecting animals for Louis Ruhe, Inc. in New York from around 1938 .

In autumn 1946 he took his foster daughter with him to Africa and India on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Floods, train derailments and the civil war between Muslims and Hindus accompanied the trip. After six months they came back to New York with two elephants, 1500 birds, 300 monkeys, and a number of pythons and cobras.

In early 1948 he wanted to travel to Malaysia , Java and Australia to catch orangutans . He was operated on in Singapore Central Hospital for acute pancreatitis and died shortly afterwards.

His foster daughter, to whom he had also sent a letter from Malaysia, followed in his footsteps a month after his death, became an animal scout with Henry Trefflich and traveled to Borneo - but soon no longer wanted to be called Jungle Jenny .

Publications

  • Once in a lifetime. In: Nature Magazine.

literature

  • Arthur Foehl, Wild Animal Dealer, Dies in Singapore. In: The Billboard. Volume 60, No. 6, February 7, 1948, p. 54 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, New Jersey, GLOUCESTER, MONROE TWP, 8-20, Sheet 18A. In: fold3.com. Retrieved January 14, 2015 .
  2. ^ Billboard. dated Feb. 7, 1948, ISSN  0006-2510 , Volume 60, No. 6, p. 90 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin · Page 11. In: newspapers.com. July 15, 1948, accessed January 14, 2015 .
  4. ^ Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, May 7, 1949, Page 1. In: newspaperarchive.com. May 7, 1949, accessed January 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Foehl, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foehl, Arthur Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zoologist and wildlife collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1900 or 1901
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1948
Place of death Singapore