Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich
Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (born June 24, 1796 in Glatz , Silesia ; † June 30, 1825 in Massawa , Ottoman Empire ) was a Prussian naturalist, zoologist and doctor.
Life
Hemprich studied medicine in Breslau and Berlin and received his doctorate. In Berlin he made friends with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , who also had a great interest in natural history . In 1820/21 both were invited by Martin Lichtenstein on an expedition to Egypt , which they were supposed to support as naturalists. The trip went from Cairo to Derna . On a second expedition from 1821 to 1825, they traveled south along the Nile , crossed the Sinai desert and Lebanon, and traveled the Red Sea . On the way they collected natural history samples. Hemprich died of malaria in the port of Massawa .
Hemprich was a member of the Corps Teutonia Breslau and Borussia Breslau (1819). In 1820 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . His brother was the well doctor Carl Heinrich Hemprich (1798–1844) from Cudowa .
Works
- Symbolæ physicæ. Mittler, Berlin 1828-33 pm. (co: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg)
- Travels in Egypt, Libya, Nubia and Dongola. Mittler, Berlin 1828 pm.
- Outline of natural history for higher educational institutions. Rücker, Berlin 1820-29 pm.
Dedication names
Two bird species are named after Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich:
literature
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg: Natural history journeys through North Africa and West Asia in the years 1820 to 1825 by Dr. WF Hemprich and Dr. CG Ehrenberg, Historical Part. Mittler, Berlin 1828.
- Friedrich Ratzel: Hemprich, Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 728 f.
- Erwin Stresemann: The journeys of two natural research friends in the Orient, described in their letters from the years 1819-1826. in treatises of the mathematical and natural science class of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin. No. 1, Berlin 1954.
- Robert Mertens: Hemprich, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 514 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, "18", 16
- ↑ Walter Schmidt : Life fates. Persecuted Silesian fraternities from the early 19th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 449-521, here: p. 490.
- ↑ GedBas
- ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds . Christopher Helm, London 2003, p. 205 .
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SURNAME | Hemprich, Friedrich Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian naturalist, zoologist and doctor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1796 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kłodzko (Glatz) |
DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1825 |
Place of death | Massawa , Eritrea |