Hugh Scallan

Father Hugh Scallan (born September 8, 1851 in Rathmines , Dublin , Ireland as John Aloysius Scallan ; † May 6, 1928 in Sianfu , China), also known as Padre Hugo, was an Irish missionary and botanist who worked in China for a long time was.

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John Aloysius Scallan was the son of Aloysius and Catherine Scallan. After training in Ireland and France, he became a novice in the Franciscan Order in the Belgian city of Tielt on May 30, 1874 and took the name Hugh. On April 10, 1882 Scallan was ordained a priest in Liège and joined the Franciscan monastery at Gorton in the same year . He then taught as assistant rector in Manchester before moving to Sianfu in the Shaanxi Province of China in April 1886 . Here he collected seeds and plant samples which he sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . During his botanical excursions he was accompanied at times by the Italian botanist and missionary Giuseppe Giraldi (1848–1901).

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Scallan was beaten almost to death by an anti-Christian mob. However, he survived the attack and only died 28 years later in China.

Dedication names

In 1905 William Botting Hemsley named the rose variety Rosa hugonis and in 1908 Oldfield Thomas named the Hugh's hedgehog ( Mesechinus hughi ) in honor of Hugh Scallan.

literature

• E. Charles Nelson, 1988: Of Rosa Hugonis and Father Hugh , In: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 5 (1), pp. 39-43. doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-8748.1988.tb00112.x
• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-080-189-304-9 , pp. 199
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation: Huntia Yearbook of Botanical and Horticultural Bibliography . Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1993, p. 14

Web links

• Entry at JSTOR