Pedro Alejandro Auber
Pedro Alejandro Auber (also Pierre Alexandre Auber , Peter Alexander Aubert , * 1786 in Écrainville , † April 13, 1843 in Havana ) was a French-Cuban botanist and scientist.
Life
Pierre Alexandre Auber came to Spain as part of the administration of the French army that invaded the peninsula and was captured in 1808 at the Battle of Bailén . As Pedro Alejandro Auber he studied botany, zoology and mineralogy in Madrid from 1811 to 1812. He completed a medical degree at the Royal Hospital of Madrid and worked in the field of field hospitals between 1812 and 1823. In 1818 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Madrid. Auber lived temporarily in La Coruna and married Walda de Noya. In 1825 his daughter, the writer Virginia Felicia Auber de Noya, was born. For political reasons he moved to the Canary Islands, where he worked as a professor of mathematics in La Orotava on the island of Tenerife .
He later emigrated to Cuba and taught mathematics and physics in Havana in 1833. In 1834 he received a professorship for botany at the University of Havana and, in 1835, succeeded Ramon de la Sagra as director of the Havana Botanical Garden.
On May 19, 1828 he was accepted as Petrus Alexander Aubert with the academic surname Deluc as a member (matriculation no. 1318) in the Leopoldina .
In Cuba Auber researched plants and their suitability for use in Cuban pharmacy. In 1835 he initiated the first construction of a railway in a Spanish-speaking country in Cuba.
In his honor were the foraminifere Quinqueloculina auberiana d'Orbigny , 1839, the gastropods Alvania auberiana ( d'Orbigny , 1842) and Cylichna auberi ( d'Orbigny , 1853), the mussel Anomalocardia auberiana ( d'Orbigny , 1842) and the reptile Named Pholidoscelis auberi ( Cocteau in Cocteau & Bibron , 1838).
literature
- Bonplandia, 1858, p. 333 digitized
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 259 digitized
Web links
- Member entry by Peter Alexander Aubert at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 19, 2018.
- Conchology.be: Auber, Pedro Alejandro
- EcuRed: Pedro Alejandro Auber
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auber, Pedro Alejandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Auber, Pierre Alexandre; Aubert, Peter Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Cuban botanist and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Écrainville |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1843 |
| Place of death | Havana |