Ferdinand Stoliczka
Ferdinand Stoliczka (born June 7, 1838 in High Walt to Kremsier today Bílany, Moravia ; † 19th June 1874 in the Indian village Murghi on the banks of Shayok River in the region Ladakh ) was an Austrian Asia researcher, botanist , zoologist , geologist , Land surveyor and paleontologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Stoliczka ".
Life
Stoliczka was the son of a forester and attended high school in Kremsier . Until 1860 he studied natural sciences and geology at the University of Vienna under Eduard Sueß and received his doctorate in 1861 at the University of Tübingen . In 1859, while still a student, he published a paper on freshwater mollusks in the chalk of the Eastern Alps. In 1860/61 he worked at the Hofmineralienkabinett in Vienna and in 1861/62 as a geologist at the Imperial Geological Institute in Vienna , before he switched to the British "Geological Survey of India" in 1862 and worked there as a paleontologist.
At the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta he worked from 1863 to 1873 ammonites from the chalk of southern India. His most important paleontological work is the Creataceous Fauna of Southern India , which appeared in 4 volumes from 1865 to 1873.
Between 1864 and 1866 he undertook several research trips of geological and palaeontological content to the Himalayan region and to Tibet , where he conducted petrographic investigations, made meteorological observations and collected rocks, fossils , plants and mammals . In 1870 he named the shell orders Arcida , Unionida and Myida .
In 1868 he became curator of the Indian Museum and secretary for natural history of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and co-edited their magazine. In 1869 he traveled to Burma, Malaysia, the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, in 1871/72 to the Cutch Peninsula, in 1872 to Darjeeling and in 1873 again to the Nicobar and Andaman Islands.
In 1873 he undertook his last, the 3rd Himalayan expedition with participation in the Second Yarkand Mission of Thomas Douglas Forsyth . He accompanied Forsyth on his diplomatic mission to Kashgar , where he managed to conclude an advantageous treaty for the British Empire with the Emir Jakub Chan , while the naturalists in his entourage (besides Stoliczka, for example, Bellew, Gordon, Chapman, Trotter and Biddulph ) were able to gain valuable knowledge about Central Asia and Turkestan and then followed Colonel Gordon over the Pamir to Wachan and back. On the march, Stoliczka fell ill with pneumonia and died near Murghi on the banks of the Shayok in what is now the Indian district of Ladakh.
Forsyth published in his Report of a mission to Yarkund in 1873, ... posthumously, several contributions by Stoliczka, which dealt with some of the expedition results obtained. Today he is known as the founder of systematic geological exploration of the Himalayas. At the instigation of the Indian government, the administration of Ladakh in Leh erected an obelisk with a tablet on a two-tiered pedestal in honor of the unfortunate researcher , which Himalayan researchers have since visited as a place of pilgrimage.
Stoliczka died as a result of his third Himalayan expedition.
He also collected Indian and Tibetan coins, which he donated to the Vienna Münzkabinett in 1867 , for which he received the Golden Medal for Art and Science.
- Species named after Stoliczka (selection)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stoliczka, Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 152–156 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm von Gümbel: Stoliczka, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 399-401.
- T. Cernajsek: Stoliczka Ferdinand. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 311.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ferdinand Stoliczka at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Lobitzer, Karl Kadletz: Ferdinand Stoliczka, founder of the systematic geological exploration of the Himalayas . In: Albert Schedl, Thomas Hofmann (Red.): "No limits". Research by employees of the Geological Reichsanstalt / Federal Institute outside Europe . Reports of the Geol. Bundesanstalt 62, Vienna 2005, p. 31
- ^ Albert Schedl, Thomas Hofmann (Red.): "No limits". Research by employees of the Geological Reichsanstalt / Federal Institute outside Europe. Reports of the Geol.Bundesanstalt 62, Vienna 2005, pp. 73, 81, 87
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stoliczka, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Asian researcher, botanist, zoologist, geologist, surveyor and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bílany near Kroměříž , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1874 |
| Place of death | Murghi, Ladakh , India |