Ezequiel Uricoechea
Ezequiel Uricoechea (born April 9, 1834 in Bogotá ( Colombia ), † July 28, 1880 in Beirut ( Lebanon )) was one of the first natural scientists and a polymath of Colombia.
Life
Uricoechea began a double degree in medicine and mathematics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut , in 1849 , where she was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He then made a trip to Europe and began studying natural sciences at the University of Göttingen from 1852 to 1854 . There he did his doctorate again in 1854 with the chemist Friedrich Wöhler with a dissertation “On iridium and its compounds” .
From 1857 to 1867 he was professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Bogota. He was also very interested in local archeology , cartography , naturopathy and bibliography . In 1859 he was the founder of the Sociedad de Naturalistas Colombianos . As a linguist , he dealt with the South American languages.
Uricoechea traveled to Europe again in 1868 and was appointed to a chair for Arabic in Brussels in 1878.
Günther Schütz has dedicated numerous publications to Uricoechea.
Fonts
- Mapoteca colombian , London 1860
- Collection linguistique américaine , 5 volumes, Paris 1871–1878
- Antigüedades Neogranadinas, digitized version of the Digital Library of the Caribbean
Honors
Ezequiel Uricoechea was honored in 1980 with a Göttingen memorial plaque proposed by the then Colombian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Jaime Jaramillo Uribe .
literature
- Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttingen memorial plaques. A biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-39161-7 , p. 216.
- Günther Schütz, Uricoechea y sus socios , Bogotá 1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uricoechea, Ezequiel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian natural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bogotá , Colombia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1880 |
| Place of death | Beirut , Lebanon |