Edward Daniel Clarke

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Edward D. Clarke, lithograph by WJ Fry (1816)
Edward Daniel Clarke

Edward Daniel Clarke (born June 5, 1769 in Willingdon , Sussex , † March 9, 1822 in London ) was an English mineralogist and naturalist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " EDClarke ".

biography

While traveling through England (1791), Italy (1792 and 1794), Scandinavia, Finland, Russia, Siberia, Asia Minor, Egypt and Greece (1799 to 1802), Clarke collected minerals, manuscripts, coins and sculptures.

In 1808 he became Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge University . In 1819 he was one of the founders of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . Since 1815 he was an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

1810–1823: Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa . London: T. Cadell and W. Davies

  • Part I: Russia, Tartary and Turkey (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1810) ( archive ). An expanded new edition appeared in 1839 (see below)
    • French edition 1813: Voyages en Russie, en Tartarie et en Turquie (…) Traduit de l'anglais. Avec trois cartes geographiques et two plans . 3 volumes. Paris: Buisson / Arthus-Bertrand (Google: Volume I - Volume II - Volume III )
    • German edition 1817: Edward Daniel Clarke's, professor at Cambridge, journey through Russia and Tartary in the years 1800–1801. Translated from English by Ph. Chr. Weyland . Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir ( Google ) (color scan archive )
    • Dutch edition 1819–1820: Reis door Rusland en Tartarye, gedaan in de jaren 1800 en 1801. Naar het Engelsch . 2 volumes. Haarlem: Erven François Bohn (Hathitrust: Volume I - Volume II )
  • Part II: Greece Egypt and the Holy Land . Section 1 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812) ( archive )
  • Part II: Greece Egypt and the Holy Land . Section 2 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1814) ( archive ) ( Google )
  • Part II: Greece Egypt and the Holy Land . Section 3. To which is Added a Supplement Respecting the Author's Journey from Constantinople to Vienna Containing his Account of the Gold Mines of Transylvania and Hungary (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1816) ( Google ) (Farbscan archive )
  • Part III : Scandinavia. Section 1 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1819) ( archive ) ( Google )
  • Part III : Scandinavia . Section 2 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1823) ( Google ). The Scandinavian volumes were published separately in three volumes under their own title in 1838 (see below)
    • There are several American complete editions, published from 1813 by various publishers in New York (Jacob Gillet, Whiting and Watson, Fay & Co., D. Huntington), which have to be researched separately due to their complex publication history.
    • Fourth British edition of Parts I / II in 8 volumes, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1817–1818
    • New British complete edition in 11 volumes, London: T. Cadell 1823–24
    • Travels in Various Countries of Scandinavia; Including Denmark, Sweden Norway, Lapland, and Finland . 3 volumes. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1838. Separate new edition of Part III of Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa (first 1819) (Google: Volume I - Volume II - Volume III )
    • Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey. With a Memoir of the Author, and Numerous Additions and Notes, Prepared for the Present Edition . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1839 ( archive ). Revised and expanded new edition of Part I of Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa (first 1810)

Further

  • 1793 (anonymous): A Tour through South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made during the Summer of 1791 . London: Minerva Press ( Google ) ( archive )
  • 1803 (anonymous): Testimony of Different Authors, Respecting the Colossal Statue of Ceres, Placed in the Vestibule of the Public Library at Cambridge, July the 1st, 1803; with A Short Account of its Removal from Eleusis, November 22, 1801 . Cambridge: Francis Hodson ( Heidelberg University Library digital ) ( Google )
  • 1805: The Tomb of Alexander. A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus Brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum . Cambridge: T. Cadell and W. Davies ( Hathitrust )
  • 1806: A Methodical Distribution of the Mineral Kingdom into Classes, Orders, Genera, Species and Varieties . Lewes: Baxter
  • 1809: A Description of the Greek Marbles Brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and Deposited in the University Library. Cambridge: Syndics of the Press ( archive )
  • 1812-1815: Catalogus sive notitia manuscriptorum qui a cel. ED Clarke comparati in bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur . 2 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon ( Hathitrust )
  • 1819: The Gas Blow-pipe: or Art of Fusion by Burning the Gaseous Constituents of Water . London: R. Watts
  • 1820: A Syllabus of Lectures in Mineralogy Containing a Methodical Distribution of Minerals Adapted to the Latest Discoveries in Chemistry . Cambridge: J. Smith ( Google )

literature

  • "Clarke (Edward Daniel)". In: [John Gorton:], A General Biographical Dictionary, Containing a Summary Account of the Lives of Eminent Persons of All Nations, Previous to the Present Generation . Volume I. London: Hunt and Clarke 1826, p. 497.
  • "Clarke, Edward, Daniel". In: Charles F. Partington (ed.): The British Cyclopædia of Biography (...), Volume I. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co. 1837, S: 473.
  • Heraclides (presumably pseudonym of Richard Ramsden): The Tomb of Alexander: A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus Brought from Alexandria and Now in the British Museum; By ED Clarke. Reviewed in Eight Letters to a Friend by Heraclides . London: HR Evans 1806 ( Google ). It is a counterpart to Clarke's The Tomb of Alexander (1805).
  • William Otter (author not on title page, only named in the foreword): The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D., Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge . London: JF Dove 1824 ( Google ). Second edition in 2 volumes, London: G. Cowie and Co. 1825 (archive: Volume I - Volume II )
  • Martin D. Saltzman: "The Hare-Clarke Controversy over the Invention of the Improved Gas Blowpipe". In: Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 26, No. 2 (2001), pp. 106–111 ( pdf )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Edward Daniel Clarke. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Without a comma after "Europe", according to the title page.
  3. ↑ See the information in Nicholas J. Saunders: Alexander's Tomb. The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror . Basic Books 2006. Even a library copy of the book bears (as the scan on Google shows) the handwritten information "Dr. Richard Ramsden" on the title page under the pseudonym Heraclides . On the other hand, ED Clarke himself is presumed under the pseudonym in TJ Carty: A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Second Edition , London: Routledge 2015, S: 354. However, according to the evidence of the text itself, that is difficult to do, which is clearly an invective against Clarke's writing.
personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Edward Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mineralogist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Willingdon , Sussex , UK
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1822
Place of death London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland