Rudolph Amandus Philippi

Rudolph Amandus Philippi , also Rudolf Amandus Philippi and in Spanish also Rodolfo Amando Philippi (born September 14, 1808 in Berlin - Charlottenburg ; † July 23, 1904 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean paleontologist , botanist , zoologist and malacologist of German descent. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Phil. "

Live and act

Philippi studied medicine in Berlin , but then left Germany at a young age and embarked on a journey of several years through Italy and Sicily , also to cure himself of a serious illness in the mild climate of the Mediterranean region , which he believed he was suffering from. In 1835 he became a teacher of zoology and botany at the higher trade school in Kassel , which he left in 1850 as director. In Kassel in 1836 he was a co-founder of the Kassel Natural History Association . During this time he spent two years (1838–1840) in Italy.

In 1851 Philippi moved to Chile and in 1853 was entrusted with the management of the Lyceum in Valdivia ; in October of the same year he was then appointed professor of botany and zoology at the University of Santiago de Chile . There he headed both the Botanical Garden at Santiago in Chile and the newly founded Natural History Museum for over 40 years. On numerous exploratory trips through the interior of the country, he created extensive collections of the country's fauna and flora. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern science in Chile and has played a major role in making it one of the most important natural history museums in all of South America . Philippi was a contemporary of Alexander von Humboldt and was very much appreciated by him.

He is the father of the botanist Federico Philippi (Friedrich Heinrich Eunom Philippi Krumwiede; 1838-1910).

Carl Ochsenius was his assistant in Chile.

Honors

The plant genera Philippiamra Kuntze from the Montiaceae family , Philippia Klotzsch from the heather family (Ericaceae) and Philippicereus Backeb were named in his honor . from the family of the cactus plants (Cactaceae), Philippimalva Kuntze from the family of the mallow plants (Malvaceae) and Philippiella Speg. named from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae).

Today's Philippistraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg was named after him in honor of Philippi in 1906. Philippi was also a long-term corresponding member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and was made an honorary member in 1900. He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography.

Fonts (selection)

Illustrations and descriptions of new or little-known conchylia . Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1842–1850 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.10589 ( digitized in the library of the Tokyo Oceanographic University )
Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiara fossilium . Schropp, Berlin 1836; 2nd edition: Eduard Anton, Halle, 1844
The so-called Atacama Desert . In: Communications from Justus Perteś geographical institution . Petermann; Justus Perthes, Gotha 1856.
Journey through the Atacama desert on the orders of the Chilean government in the summer of 1853–54 undertaken and described by DR. ... with a map and XXVII plates . Eduard Anton, Halle 1860 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.7178
Florula Atacamensis seu enumeratio plantarum, qaias ... Eduard Anton, Halle 1860
Elementos de historia natural . 4th edition, 1885
Elementos de botanica . 1885.
Contributions to the knowledge of the tertiary fossils of northwestern Germany . Theodor Fischer, Kassel 1843 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.44897
List of the Chilean dipteras . Vienna 1865 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.9295
The Tertiary and Quaternary Petrifications of Chile . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1887 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.15048
Las especies chilenas del jénero mactra . Santiago de Chile 1893 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.11096
Plantas nuevas Chilenas . Santiago de Chile 1893–1896 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8592
Los fósiles secundarios de Chile . Santiago de Chile 1899 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.13904
Figuras i descripciones de aves chilenas . Santiago de Chile 1902 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.14390

literature

Gottfried Zirnstein: Philippi, Rudolf Amandus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 391 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Amandus Philippi - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Rudolph Amandus Philippi - Sources and full texts

Works by and about Rudolph Amandus Philippi in the German Digital Library
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Rudolph Amandus Philippi at the IPNI
Meyers Konversationslexikon

Individual evidence

↑ Website Naturkundemuseum Kassel .
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Philippi, Rudolph Amandus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Philippi, Rudolf Amandus; Philippi, Rodolfo Amando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Chilean palaeontologist, botanist, zoologist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin - Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1904
Place of death	Santiago de Chile

[1] Website Naturkundemuseum Kassel .

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

[3] Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )