Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia

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Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia

Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (born November 9, 1850 in Madrid , † November 19, 1944 in Mexico City ) was a Spanish zoologist specializing in entomology .

Live and act

Bolivar studied law and natural sciences at the University of Madrid without doing any further work in the field of law. While still a student, he was one of the founding members of the Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Natural History Society of Spain), founded in 1871, of which he was appointed honorary president in 1920.

After completing his studies, he initially worked as an assistant at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, whose director he was years later, from 1901 to 1936. But in 1877 he was appointed full professor at the University of Madrid to the chair of entomology. There he devoted himself in particular to the research of grasshoppers and threadlike animals and accordingly significantly expanded the entomological collections of the museum and the university. But a year earlier, in 1876, Bolivar published his first important publication with the Sinopsis de los ortópterosde de España y Portugal , an overview of orthoptera (grasshoppers) on the Iberian peninsula.

As Darwin's protagonist , his focus was also on biological research. One consequence of this was his initiative to found the marine biological station in Santander in 1887. As a member and president of the Consejo Nacional de Instrucción Pública (National Committee for Public Education) , Bolivar also had a major influence on the Spanish university reforms of 1901. Bolivar also made a contribution to the dissemination of the theory of genetics in Spain, which was based on the results of Mendel's and Morgan 's research .

Since 1898 a member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences, he nevertheless emigrated to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1940 .

Works

  • Bolívar y Urrutia, I .: Sinopsis de los ortópterosde de España y Portugal (1876) Estudios entomológios (1912-! 918).
  • Bolívar y Urrutia, I .: Mémoires d'Entomologie 1, Conocefalionos sud-americanos / Ignacio Bolivar / Valparaiso: Reviste chilena historia natural , 1903
  • Bolívar y Urrutia, I .; Salvador Calderón y Arena: Nuevos elementos de historia natural ; Madrid, Impr. De March y Samarán, 1920.
  • Bolívar y Urrutia, I .: Artrópodos del viaje al Pacífico verificado de 1862 á 1865 por una comision de naturalistas enviada por el gobierno español. Insectos neurópteros y ortópteros ; Madrid, Impr. De M. Ginesta, 1884.
  • Bolívar y Urrutia, I .: Catálogo sinóptico de los ortópteros de la fauna Ibérica ; Coimbra: Imp. Da Universidade, 1898.

literature

  • Alvarado, R .: Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia in Asclepio 41 (1989)
  • Arends, T .: Bolivar y los cientificos in Quipo 4 (1987)

Web links

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proof

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (1850-1944) (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Isolde Schmidt: Bolivar y Urrutia, Ignacio , Lexicon of important natural scientists, 2007, Volume 1; Elsevier GmbH, Munich; P. 204; ISBN 3-8274-1883-6
  3. ↑ Cantabrian Maritime Museum. Spain Info, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Plan estratégico 2019 - 2023 Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte MUSEO MARÍTIMO DEL CANTÁBRICO. (PDF) MMC, accessed on February 19, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Ignacio Bolivar Urrutia (1850-1944); Complutense University of Madrid (English)
personal data
SURNAME Bolívar y Urrutia, Ignacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish zoologist and entomologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1944
Place of death Mexico city