Peter Bellinger Brodie (paleontologist)
Peter Bellinger Brodie (* 1815 in London , † November 1, 1897 in Rowington ) was a British paleontologist , botanist and clergyman. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " PBBrodie ".
Brodie was the nephew of Benjamin Collins Brodie and son of the lawyer Peter Bellinger Brodie (1778-1854) and grew up in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. As a teenager he became interested in fossils by visiting the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England , with whose curator William Clift he became friendly. Clift made sure that he became a member of the Geological Society of London in 1834 . When studying theology at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), he was particularly drawn to the lectures of the geologist Adam Sedgwick . In 1838 he was ordained as an Anglican minister and pastor at Wylye ( Curate ) in Wiltshire , Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire , Down Hatherley (Rector) in Gloucestershire and Rowington (Vicar, Dean) in Warwickshire .
He was particularly concerned with fossil insects and published History of the Fossil Insects of the Secondary Rocks of England in 1845 .
Henri Milne-Edwards named to the isopods belonging Archaeoniscus Brodiei from the Purbeck films (in which he gathered much) for him. Brodie first described, for example, the genus Naiadita of Marchantiopsida and the species Naiadita lanceolata (1845).
He was an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalist's Club and the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society and, in 1854, founder of the Warwickshire Naturalists 'and Archaeologists' Field Club. In 1887 he received the Murchison Medal .
Web links
- Obituary by HB Woodward , Geological Magazine 1897, p. 481
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brodie, Peter Bellinger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British paleontologist, botanist and clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1897 |
| Place of death | Rowington |