Ignacio Vidal y Cros

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Ignacio Vidal y Cros ( 1815 - December 29, 1859 ) was a Spanish physician and naturalist .

Live and act

Ignacio Vidal y Cros studied medicine at the Universities of Valencia and Madrid and natural sciences in Paris. Subsequently, he was professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Valencia and in 1846 was appointed director of the Mineralogical and Zoological Museum of the University of Valencia. On January 1, 1850, he was elected national corresponding member ( Académico corresponsal nacional ) of the Royal Academy of Sciences ( Real Academia de ciencias ).

Ignacio Vidal achieved greater fame in his time through his ornithological writings published in 1851 and 1856. Alfred Brehm , who called Vidal “the only ornithological writer in Spain”, named an Orpheus warbler ( Curruca vidali Brehm , 1857, now synonymous ) and a subspecies of the little owl ( Athene noctua vidalii Brehm , 1857) after him. In addition, he was made an honorary member of the German Ornithological Society on April 12, 1856 and an honorary member of the Natural Research Society of the Osterland zu Altenburg on September 2, 1856 . On August 15, 1858, he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina with the academic surname Mercatus ( matriculation number 1890 ).

Works

  • Catálogo de las aves de la Albufera . In: Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias . Tomo I. Madrid 1851, p. 167-199 (Spanish, biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Catálogo de las aves de la Albufera . In: Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias . Tomo IV. Madrid 1856, p. 401-429 (Spanish, biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • Jose Romagosa y Gotzens: Discurso que en elogio del difunto Doctor Don Ignacio Vidal y Cros . In: Boletin del Instituto Médico Valenciano . Tomo 7. Jose Mateu Garin, València 1860, p. 601-606 (Spanish).
  • Nicolás Ferrer y Julve: Recuerdo apologético del Doctor D. Ignacio Vidal y Cros . Discurso pronunciado en la sesión inaugural extraordinaria dedicada al objeto en 7 de octubre de 1882, por el Dr. D. Nicolás Ferrer y Julve. València 1882 (Spanish).
  • Mariano Peset (Ed.): Història de la Universitat de València . Volume III: La Universitat Liberal (segles XIX i XX). Universitat de València 2000, ISBN 84-370-4552-5 , p. 151-152 (Spanish).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gustav Quäbicker: The honorary members of the German Ornithological Society from its foundation (1850) to 1935 . Biographical abstracts. In: Journal of Ornithology . 87th year, issue 2, April 1939, p. 194 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed July 26, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Ludw. Brehm: Overview of European birds in relation to their autumn and spring dress . In: Journal of Ornithology . IVth year. Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1857, p. 455 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  3. ^ AE Brehm: Preliminary compilation of the birds of Spain with critical use of the lists published by Spanish ornithologists up to now . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Naturhistorische Zeitung . New episode, third volume. Rudolf Kuntze's publishing house, Dresden 1857, p. 440 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  4. ^ Continuation Catalogi . In: Negotiations of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . tape 27 . Friedrich Fromann, Jena 1860, p. L (Latin, biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Vidal y Cros, Ignacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidal Cros, Ignacio; Vidal, Ignacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish medic and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1815
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1859