Felipe Poey
Felipe Poey y Aloy (born May 26, 1799 in Havana ; † January 28, 1891 ibid) was a Cuban naturalist and writer .
Life
Felipe Poey was born in Cuba to a French family. He spent part of his childhood (from the age of five to eight) in Pau in France . After the death of his father, he returned to Havana and was accepted into the Real Seminario de San Carlo s, where he was a student of Félix Varela y Morales (1788-1853). After his law exam, he traveled to Spain in 1820 , became a lawyer and worked as a professor at the National Academy of Law . Because of his liberal ideas he had to leave Spain in 1823 and return to Cuba.
In 1825 he traveled to Paris , where he met important zoologists of his time and was one of the founders of the French Society for entomology . He worked in Georges Cuvier's laboratory and began writing about butterflies . He provided Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes with information about fish in Cuba. He was a member of the Zoological Society of London , the Society of Friends of Natural History in Berlin, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences , the Museum and the Society for Natural History of Madrid. In 1839 he founded the Museum of Natural History in Havana. In 1842 he became professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana , later dean of the natural science faculty and vice-rector of the university.
He founded the Ichthyology and Science Library and co-founded the Academy of Medicine , Physics, and Science and President of the Havana Anthropological Society.
Poey has worked on numerous national and international scientific publications. In 1836 he wrote the Compendium for Cuban Geography ( Compendio de geografía de la Isla de Cuba ), which became the basic work and had numerous editions.
Works (selection)
- as an author
- Compendio de geografía de la Isla de Cuba . 1836.
- Curso de zoología . 1843.
- Memorias sobre la Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba . 1851 and 1856-1858.
- Curso elemental de Mineralogía . 1872.
- Poissons de l'Ile de Cuba . 1874.
- Ictiología cubana . 1955 and 1962.
- as translator
- Gabriel Delafosse : Historia de los Imperios de Asiria . Havana 1847.
- Gabriel Delafosse: Nociones elementales de Historia Natural . 1844 and 1862.
Web links
- Literature by and about Felipe Poey in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poey, Felipe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poey y Aloy, Felipe; Poey Aloy, Felipe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban naturalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1891 |
| Place of death | Havana |