Raphael Slidell from Erlanger

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Raphael Slidell from Erlanger

Raphael Slidell Baron von Erlanger (born July 23, 1865 in Paris ; † November 29, 1897 in Heidelberg ) was a German zoologist from the Frankfurt banking family of the Barons von Erlanger of the Erlanger & Sons bank from Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Raphael Slidell Baron von Erlanger was the eldest child, born in France , of the German banker Emile Frédéric d'Erlanger from Frankfurt am Main , a global rail financier, and his second American wife, Marguérite Mathilde Slidell, daughter of John Slidell , among other things American ambassador at the court of Napoleon III. , the Emperor of France.

Crypt of the family of Raphael Baron Slidell von Erlanger

From 1885 von Erlanger studied natural sciences, medicine and zoology in Heidelberg , Bonn and Berlin . His teacher in Heidelberg was the well-known zoologist Professor Otto Bütschli . He received his doctorate in Heidelberg as Dr. phil. Here he later taught first as a private lecturer and from 1896 as an associate professor in the field of developmental history ( ontogenesis ), among other things in his own laboratory.

In 1894 he married the "beautiful Miss Blennerhassett" (1876-1953), daughter of Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, an Irish writer and politician, and the Countess Charlotte von der Leyden and after Erlanger's death as Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne Galway wife of the Governor of South Australia .

Raphael Slidell Erlanger died after five days disease to pneumonia .

Honors

Erlanger's Heidelberg colleague Robert Lauterborn named the ciliate Mycterothrix erlangeri after him in 1898 , initially under the name Trichorhynchus erlangeri :

"2. Trichorhynchus Erlangeri n. Sp.
The infusoria genus Trichorhynchus (Balbiani 1863) with the only species Tr. Up to now tuamotuensis was only known from the South Sea islands ( Tuamotu ), and it was obtained from Balbiani from cysts found in tree moss from the locality mentioned. Since then, the genus does not appear to have been observed again. Under these circumstances the discovery of a second species of the genus Trichorhynchus in the area of ​​the Upper Rhine is gaining some interest. I call the new form Trichorhynchus Erlangeri and dedicate it to the memory of my dear friend, Prof. Raphael von Erlanger, who passed away so early. "

Others

Memorial plaque in the Church of St. Raphael

In memory of Raphael Baron Slidell von Erlanger, the von Erlanger family essentially financed the construction of the Catholic Church of St. Raphael in Heidelberg - Neuenheim from 1903 to 1905. Following the family's request, the church was consecrated to St. Raphael in honor of the deceased .

literature

  • On the morphology and embryology of a tardigrade (Macrobiotus Macronyx), Biologisches Zentralblatt 14 (1894) pp. 582-585.
  • The Erlanger family, bankers, patrons and artists, Gabriele Mendelssohn, Leinpfad Verlag 2005
  • Wilhelm Heß :  Erlanger, Raphael Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 397.

Web links

Commons : Raphael Slidell von Erlanger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lady Galway's biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
  2. ↑ German Zoological Society: Zoologischer Anzeiger. Volume 20, page 512.
  3. ↑ Robert Lauterborn : Two new protozoa from the area of ​​the Upper Rhine. Zoologischer Anzeiger, XXI. Tape. 1898, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Erlanger, Raphael Slidell from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erlanger, Raphael Baron Slidell von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1897
Place of death Heidelberg