Juan Lembeye

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Juan Lembeye e Lartaud (1816-1989)

Juan José Joaquín Lembeye e Lartaud (born October 21, 1816 in Ferrol , † December 1, 1889 in Culleredo ), often just Juan Lembeye, was a Spanish agronomist , naturalist , lepidopterist , ornithologist and mayor of Culleredo.

Live and act

His uncle Vicente Lembeye ran the Principal Theater on Calle San Bernardo in Feroll from 1817 and the Philharmonic from 1820. When the first Masonic lodge in Galicia met in A Coruña in May 1814 for the Constitutional Assembly for the Reunification of Spain (Logia Constitucional de la Reunión Española) , Lembey's father Juan Lembeye and his uncle took part in the assembly as members. Thus, Juan Lembeye grew up in a French-born and liberal-minded family. The father, who settled in Ferrol in 1762 and died in 1823, had the reputation of a remarkable merchant. So the father supplied the royal arsenal and was director of the Reais Fábricas das Aceas do Ponto in Narón .

In the period before 1840 he emigrated to Cuba like many Galicians. In Havana he founded a commercial college . He also studied the island's fauna and was in close contact with many naturalists and intellectuals living there. For example, Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799–1891) wrote in his second volume of Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios latinos y extractos en frances :

"A cave housed many swallows in its entrance, which could be called cave swallows and which my friend Lembeye had observed in the cave of Cotilla and which in his book Aves de Cuba referred to as Golondrina ribariega ."

Barn swallow , swamp swallow , sand martin and subspecies of the Cuban swift in Aves de la Isla de Cuba

His most important work was certainly Aves de la Isla de Cuba . It appeared in 1850 and contained some species new to science. Laureano Fernández served as illustrator for the work and Luis Marquier as lithographer . In Ramón de la Sagras (1798–1871) work Historia física, política y natural de Cuba, he published a catalog that he classified according to a system by Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802–1857).

When he received many letters from scientists from all over the world, especially from Ramón de la Sagra, he also began to collect insects. Part of his collection can now be admired in the A Coruña Science House. Even John Christopher Gundlach was one of his friends. Lembeye wrote about Gundlach in Aves de la Isla de Cuba :

“With the greatest respect, it is one of my easiest tasks to happily mention that while coordinating and expanding my incomplete notes, all the hints and bellows that Dr. Juan Gundlach, a well-known natural scientist from the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , made it my own and I had the pleasure of visiting it in Cárdenas in 1846 , where he made his valuable ornithological collection available to me with the greatest kindness also found some indeterminate birds, such as the Ardea. "

He sold his bird collection to the Oviedo Museum for 1000 Pesos

The Instituto José Cornide de Estudios Coruñeses contains correspondence between Lembeye and Víctor López Seoane y Pardo-Montenegro (1832–1900) from the years 1855 to 1856 , which provide information about his lesser-known entomological research activities. After the publication of his ornithological work, he wrote in the letters that he was now dealing with insects, especially butterflies and caterpillars. So he found many new species of caterpillars that he wanted to publish about later. For a long time, his collection in the Casa das Ciencias da Coruña was the only evidence of his entomological research. But between 1855 and 1856 he published fifteen articles on entomology in Floresta cubana and the successor magazine La Piragua . For example, articles with the titles Mariposas , Historia Natural appeared in Floresta cubana . Orugas , Historia Natural. Crisálidas , Historia Natural. Mariposas diurnas , Historia Natural. Continuación de las mariposas diurnas , Historia Natural. Continuación de las mariposas diurnas , Historia Natural. Continuación de las mariposas diurnas , Historia Natural. Continuación de las mariposas diurnas. Lycaenidas and Historia Natural. Ninfalideas . The articles Historia Natural followed in La Piragua . Vanesas , Historia Natural. Argynnis y Melitaeas , Historia Natural. Danaides , Historia Natural. Heliconias , Historia Natural. Satyrus y Vanesas and Historia Natural. Hesperides y Urania [FINALIZA] .

In the early 1960s he returned to Galicia and settled in Culleredo. In 1863 he was elected to the city council there. When José Pardo Bazán, the father of Emilia Pardo Bazán, brought a mechanical milking machine from England, it was Lembeye who experimented with it. It was the time when he took care of agricultural science issues. He dealt with wheat diseases , new fertilizers and sulphurisation . In 1873 he published Consideraciones y consejos agrícolas para mejorar las cosechas de trigo en Galicia y perfeccionar los abonos, his first book on this subject. This was followed in 1876 with La caries, inoculación esporádica de los trigos y medio de evitarla, a book on wheat rot and ways of avoiding this problem. In 1885 he published another work Consideraciones y consejos agrícolas para mejorar las cosechas de trigo en Galicia y perfeccionar los abonos in which he dealt with increasing wheat yields and improving fertilizers.

During this time he has dedicated all of his research and educational work to the farmers of the region. He taught the farmers how to increase their crop yields. In 1868 he was elected mayor of Culleredo, an office he held until 1871. In 1889 he was re-elected mayor, but a serious illness led to his death in December of the same year.

Juan Lembeye is buried in a family grave in the Culleredo cemetery next to the Santo Estevo Church.

First descriptions by Juan José Joaquín Lembeye e Lartaud

Climbing warbler ( Mniotilta varia ) ( Linnaeus , 1766) and bee elf ( Mellisuga helenae ) in Aves de la Isla de Cuba

Juan Lembeye e Lartaud has described some species and subspecies that were new to science.

species

The species include chronological u. a .:

Subspecies

The subspecies include chronological and a .:

  • Cuba Segler ( tachornis phoenicobia iradii ( Lembeye , 1850))

Dedication names

Johannes Christopher Gundlach dedicated the name of the Cuban mosquito catcher ( Polioptila lembeyei ) to him in 1858 . As early as 1853 he described Muscicapa lembeyei , a name that is now a synonym for the white-bellied Phoebetyrann ( Sayornis phoebe ( Latham , 1790)). With Helicina lembeyana , Felipe Poey y Aloy dedicated the name of a snail species to him in 1854 .

Carlos Guillermo Aguayo (1889–1982) and Mario Idelfonso Sánchez Roig (1890–1962) named in 1953, based on a manuscript by Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (1858–1950), a land snail species Cerion lembeyei , which is now synonymous with Cerion poeyi santacruzense is considered.

Publications (selection)

  • Ornitología cubana . In: Memorias de la Real Sociedad Económica de La Habana (=  2 ). tape 6 , 1849, pp. 331-336 .
  • Aves de la isla de Cuba . tape 1 . Imprenta del Tiempo, Havana 1850 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Catálogo de las Aves observadas en la isla de Cuba hasta Octubre de 1850, clasificadas según el sistema adoptado por Mr. Alcides d´Orbigny en Historia física, política y natural de Cuba de Don Ramon de la Sagra . In: Historia física, política y natural de Cuba . 1850, p. 1-12 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Consideraciones y consejos agrícolas para mejorar las cosechas de trigo en Galicia y perfeccionar los abonos . Tipografía de Eusebio Cascante, Coruña 1873 ( biblioteca.galiciana.gal ).
  • La caries, inoculación esporádica de los trigos y medio de evitarla . Tipografía de Eusebio Cascante, Coruña 1876.
  • Consideraciones y consejos agrícolas para mejorar las cosechas de trigo en Galicia y perfeccionar los abonos . Imp.Seminario, Santiago 1885.

literature

  • Manuel Francisco Vieites García: Cento vinte e cinco anos de teatro en galego . Editorial Galaxia, Vigo 2007 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Francisco Díaz-Fierros Viqueira: Introducción á edición facsímile de Aves de la Isla de Cuba, de Juan Lembeye y Lartaud . Xunta de Galicia, Santiago 1995.
  • Johannes Christopher Gundlach : Description of Five new Species of Birds and other Ornithological Notes of Cuban Species . In: Boston journal of natural history . tape 6 , 1853, pp. 313-319 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Johannes Christopher Gundlach: Notes on some Cuban Birds, with Description of three New Species . In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York . tape 6 , 1858, pp. 267-275 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Barney Cory : The Birds of the West Indies, Including the Bahama Islands, the Greater and the Lesser Antilles, Excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad . In: The Auk . tape 3 , no. 2 , 1886, p. 187–245 ( online [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
  • Carlos Guillermo Aguayo, Mario Idelfonso Sánchez Roig: Nuevos Moluscos Cubanos de la Familia Cerionidae . In: Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural "Filipe Poey" . tape 21 , no. 3 , 1853, p. 283-298 .
  • Felipe Poey y Aloy: Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios latinos y extractos en France . tape 1 . Impr. De Barcina, Havana 1854 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Felipe Poey y Aloy: Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios latinos y extractos en France . tape 2 . Impr. De Barcina, Havana 1856 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Juan Lembeye  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Juan Lembeye Lartaud: o seu traballo entomolóxico en Cuba Carlos Pereira Martínez on December 4, 2016 in terra e tempo
  2. ↑ Manuel Francisco Vieites García, p. 85.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Juan Lembeye e Lartaud
  4. ↑ Juan Lembeye y Lartaud Pioneiro since ornitoloxía cubana
  5. ↑ Felipe Poey y Aloy (1856), p. 18.
  6. ↑ Aves de la Isla de Cuba
  7. ↑ Juan José Joaquín Lembeye e Lartaud (1850), p. 420.
  8. ↑ Revista Económica (nº 62, 30/05/1863, p. 293)
  9. ↑ Johannes Christopher Gundlach (1858), p. 273.
  10. ↑ Johannes Christopher Gundlach (1853), p. 314.
  11. ^ Charles Barney Cory, p. 236.
  12. ↑ Felipe Poey y Aloy (1854), p. 420.
  13. ^ Carlos Guillermo Aguayo et al. a., p. 293.
personal data
SURNAME Lembeye, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lembeye e Lartaud, Juan José Joaquín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish agronomist, naturalist, lepidopterist, ornithologist and Mayor of Culleredo
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrol
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1889
Place of death Culleredo