Ernest Thompson Seton

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Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton (born August 14, 1860 in South Shields , County Durham today in Tyne and Wear , South Tyneside, England , † October 23, 1946 in Seton Village, New Mexico ) was a well-known Scottish-Canadian naturalist , writer, illustrator and Painter. Seton was also a co-founder of the American Boy Scout Movement .

During his work Seton used variants of his name as a pseudonym , including Ernest Evan Thompson and Ernest Seton Thompson .

Life

The Setons family were of Scottish descent. In 1865 Seton's parents emigrated to Canada with ten sons and settled in the province of Ontario . Seton attended school in Toronto from the age of ten and later studied there at the art academy. In 1877 he went from there to London in England and studied there on a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Arts . In 1881 Seton, who had lived in very poor conditions in England, returned to North America and, after a recreational stay in Manitoba , tried to make a living as a draftsman and author in New York . After initial success as a draftsman, Seton exhibited in Paris and subsequently made studies on the anatomy of animals.

Seton was one of the first authors of nature narratives, in which mostly wild animals played the main roles, which he largely observed in their natural surroundings. The best-known of his works are Wild Animals I Have Known (German title: Bingo and other animal stories ), published in 1898 (German last 1985), and Animal Heroes (German title: Tierhelden ), published in 1906. Seton illustrated his works with many of his own drawings the nature; some of his works contain up to 200 such drawings. In 1928 Seton received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences .

The Walt Disney Studios in 1962 filmed his story to The Legend of Lobo ( The Legend of Lobo ) and his book The Biography of a Grizzly in 1970 as King of the Grizzlies ( King of the Grizzlies ). The book Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel (German title: Fahnenschwanz: Geschichte eines Grauhörnchens ) from 1922 became the template for the Japanese anime series Puschel, das Eichhorn (Japanese シ ー ト ン 動物 記 り す の バ ナ ー) in 1979.

Building a concept of youth on his experiences of nature and -schilderungen developed Seton education , which he in the Birch Bark Roll of Woodcraft represented and from 1902 in the Woodcraft transposed pedagogy. He combined the experience of nature and natural history with community and health education in the form of tent camps and Indian elements. His experiential and environmental education concept was applied internationally in various groups of the Woodcraft movement.

In 1906 Seton met Robert Baden-Powell , later founder of the Boy Scout Movement. Baden-Powell had read the Birch Bark Roll with great interest. Together they both developed their ideas for youth work.

Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement in Great Britain in 1907 . Seton was instrumental in founding the American branch of this movement, the Boy Scouts of America , in 1910 . In this organization Seton's Woodcraft Indians merged with YMCA groups that worked on the scout method, as well as with several other youth organizations.

1905 was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters .

Works (selection)

Prairie Animals and Their Fates , 1921 edition
  • Bingo and Other Animal Stories (Wild Animals I Have Known)
  • The Red Man's Manifesto (The Gospel of the Red Man); Revised and expanded by Julia M. Seton, translated by Peter Hübner, 3rd, expanded edition Oesch, Zurich 2007 ISBN 978-3-0350-2015-1 (first edition in the world: Hübner, Waldeck 1985, ISBN 3-88792-004-X ) .
  • The she-wolf Wosca (Mainly About Wolves)
  • Domino Reinhard: The Life Story of a Silver Fox (Biography of a Silver Fox)
  • Flag tail and sand hill deer (banner tail)
  • Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac
  • Prairie animals and their fates (Lives of the Hunted; online  - Internet Archive [10th edition 1910])
  • Rolf the Trapper (Rolf in the Woods)
  • Animals of the Wild (Wild Animal Ways)
  • Animal hero - the story of a cat, a dove, a lynx, a rabbit, a dog, two wolves and a reindeer (Animal Heroes)
  • Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly
  • Wild animals at home (Wild Animals at Home)
  • Two little savages: A book by Jan and Sam and their goings-on in their realm and on the farm in Sanger (Two Little Savages)

Web links

Commons : Ernest Thompson Seton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Ernest Thompson Seton. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Seton, Ernest Thompson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernest Evan Thompson; Ernest Seton Thompson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author and co-founder of the US Boy Scout Movement
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH South Shields , County Durham , England
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1946
Place of death Seton Village, New Mexico , United States