Everard Im Thurn

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Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn KCMG , KBE , CB (born May 9, 1852 at Kingswood House , Sydenham (now London ), † October 9, 1932 at his country estate at Cockenzie House , Cockenzie , East Lothian in Scotland ) was a British explorer , Botanist and explorer .

Life

He came from the noble family Im Thurn , his father was the merchant Johann Conrad im Thurn (1809-1882). He received his education in Royal Tunbridge Wells , later in Wiltshire and from 1865 to 1870 at Marlborough College . Here he also wrote (1870) his first book, Birds of Marlborough . In November 1871 he enrolled in Exeter College at Oxford University .

From 1877 to 1882 Sir Everard Im Thurn was curator of the British Guyana Museum in Georgetown . In 1884 he was the first to climb the Roraima-Tepui . In 1904 he became governor of the Fiji Islands .

In addition to his scientific work, Sir Everard Im Thurn is also considered a pioneer of ethnographic photography . From 1919 to 1920 he was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh , where a chair was named after him, and at the University of Sydney .

In 1895 he married Hannah Cassels Lorimer, a daughter of James Lorimer .

In 1933 most of Sir Everard Im Thum's extensive library was bought by Francis Edwards Ltd., a London bookshop. sold. In 1881 the ornithologist Philip Lutley Sclater named the bird Golden-tufted Mountain-Grackle , which occurs in the Gran Sabana area , with the synonym Macroagelaius imthurmi .

Publications (selection)

  • 1883. Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana, etc. Digitized
  • 1886. Botany of Roraima Expedition .
  • 1892. A tramp with Redskins .

literature

  • Agathon Aerni, Sir Everard Im Thurn . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 348–357 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Guyana National Museum
  2. ↑ PDF Agathon Aerni, Sir Everard Im Thurn . In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, p. 357
predecessor Office successor
Sir Henry Moore Jackson Governor of Fiji
and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific Territories
1904-1911 		Sir Francis Henry May
personal data
SURNAME Im Thurn, Everard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Im Thurn, Everard Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British explorer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Well Kingswood House, Sydenham near London
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1932
Place of death Cockenzie House , Cockenzie , East Lothian , Scotland