Frederick Corbin Lukis

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Frederick Corbin Lukis

Frederick Corbin Lukis (born February 24, 1788 in St. Peter Port on Guernsey ; † November 15, 1871 ibid) was a British natural scientist and archaeologist who examined , among other things, the megalithic complexes on the Channel Islands .

biography

His father was John Lukis (1753-1832), a captain in the Guernsey militia , his mother Sarah Collings (1749-1816). He got rich from the wine trade and as a privateer captain, and built a large house on Grange Road on the outskirts of St. Peter Port. Like his father, he was a member of the Guernsey Militia , where he attained the rank of colonel and in 1820 became a wing adjutant to the governor of Guernsey.

From a young age, Lukis showed an interest in geology , botany and history. Sebire describes him as a ““ remarkable polymath . ”His cousin Joshua Gosselin (1739–1813) took him to an excavation in the Entrance Grave La Varde on L'Ancresse Common in 1811 , which was discovered by soldiers of the garrison. This piqued his interest He was the local secretary of the Botanical Society of the British Isles and was also interested in meteorology.

On February 17, 1813 he married his cousin Elizabeth Collings (1791-1865), with whom he had six sons and three daughters. His unmarried daughter Mary-Anne (1822–1906), who lived with him at home, later made numerous watercolors of his excavations. He was inducted into the Society of Antiquaries of London on April 28, 1853 . In the middle of the 19th century he excavated, described and cataloged many facilities. He wrote extensive work on the megalithic systems of the Channel Islands , Great Britain and France, which, however, remained largely unpublished. His contemporaries were impressed by the scientific nature of his excavations, as well as his research, in which he rejected all unproven theories and assumptions and instead interpreted prehistoric monuments based on the finds made in them. He discussed his findings with Worsaae and Charles de Gerville, among others .

Afterlife

The Guernsey Museum tells a little about his life, some documents have been taken over from the British Museum . His biographer Heather Sebire calls him a "pioneer archaeologist".

Publications (selection)

  • Observations on the primaeval antiquities of the Channel Islands. Archaeological Journal 1, 1844, 144-152.
  • Letters on the natural history of the Channel Islands. 1860
  • Carey Curtis (Ed.), The Account of the Restoration of the Town Church, Guernsey, in the year 1822 etc. Guernsey, Bichard's Printing and Publishing Co. 1916.

literature

  • Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 1-84718-357-3 ( excerpt ; PDF, 849 kB).
  • Heather R. Sebire: Lukis, Frederick Corbin . In: Dictionary of National Biography .
  • Heather Sebire: Frederick Corbin Lukis & his family: one of the great Guernsey men of the Victorian age. Guernsey Museums & Galleries 2006, ISBN 1871560071
  • Heather Sebire: The archaeological observations of the Lukis family of Guernsey . In: English Heritage Historical Review 3, 2008, pp. 129-136.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, p. 166.
  2. ↑ Heather Sebire: The Lukis family of Guernsey and antiquarian pursuits in Scotland . In: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of Scotland 139, 2009, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Heather R. Sebire: Lukis, Frederick Corbin. In: Dictionary of National Biography , online , accessed April 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, p. 134.
  6. ↑ Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, p. 136.
  7. ↑ Heather Sebire: From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Frederick Corbin of Lukis of Guernsey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2007, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Lukis, Frederick Corbin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Peter Port on Guernsey
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1871
Place of death St. Peter Port on Guernsey