Frederick William Hope

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Frederick William Hope

Frederick William Hope (born January 3, 1797 in London , † April 15, 1862 ibid) was a British entomologist and founder of the so-called "Hope Professorship" at Oxford University .

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Frederick William Hope was the second son of John Thomas Hope and Ellen Hester Mary. In 1817 he began his studies at Christ's College of Cambridge University where he obtained a BA 1820 and MA 1823. In the Kurate of Frodesley Hope was ordained .

During his studies attended Hope, among others, the lectures of John Kidd that his interest in zoology and particularly entomology aroused. He developed into a successful collector of English insects. His finds found their way into the works of James Francis Stephens and William Yarrell , for example . He also made contributions to John Forbes Royle's Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains .

Hope became a member of the Linnean Society of London early on and was one of the earliest members of the Zoological Society of London, founded in 1826 . In 1833 he was one of the founding members of the Entomological Society of London and was its president from 1835 to 1836 and from 1845 to 1846. On June 5, 1834, he was finally elected a member of the Royal Society . He wrote numerous articles for the publications of the societies. When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

Hope began to expand his collection to include exotic insects and published catalogs of his collections, for example on Lucanidae and Hemiptera . His most important work was The Coleopterist's Manual , published in three volumes from 1838 to 1840 . Because of his poor health, he often stayed in the warmer areas of Europe, such as Naples and Nice . There he expanded his collections to include marine animals such as fish and crustaceans .

In August 1849 he donated his entomological collection and his natural history library to Oxford University on the condition that the collection would remain together. In the following years this collection was expanded with further donations from Hope. The Hope Entomological Collections are now part of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History .

In 1855 the University of Oxford awarded him an honorary doctorate . Hope endowed a professorship in zoology at Oxford University in 1861 and nominated John Obadiah Westwood as the first "Hope Professor".

Hope's marriage to Ellen Meredith in 1835 had no children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Coleopterist's Manual - 3 volumes
    • Containing The Lamellicorn Insects Of Linneus And Fabricius . Bohn, London 1837; digitized version
    • Containing The Predaceous Land And Water Beetles Of Linneus And Fabricius . Bohn, London 1838; digitized version
    • Containing Various Families, Genera, And Species, Of Beetles, Recorded By Linneus And Fabricius: Also Descriptions Of Newly Discovered And Unpublished Insects . Bridgewater, London 1840
  • Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di molti altri del Mediterraneo . Fr. Azzolino, Naples 1851; digitized version

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literature

  • John Obadiah Westwood: Memoir of the Late Rev. Frederick William Hope . In: The Gentleman's Magazine . F. Jefferies, 1862, pp. 785-788; on-line
  • Journal of the British Archaeological Association . British Archaeological Association, Series 1, Volume 19, 1863, pp. 157-162; on-line
  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.
  2. ^ Frederick O'Dwyer: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward . P. 156

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personal data
SURNAME Hope, Frederick William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1862
Place of death London