Samuel Hibbert goods
Samuel Hibbert , from 1837 Hibbert-Ware (born April 21, 1782 in Manchester , † December 30, 1848 in Hale Barns near Altrincham in Cheshire ) was an English geologist , paleontologist and archaeologist.
Life
Samuel Hibbert was the eldest son of the linen yarn dealer Samuel Hibbert († 1815) from Manchester and his wife Sarah, née Ware, from Dublin .
Hibbert studied at the same time as Ami Boué medicine at the University in Edinburgh . Crucially influenced by Robert Jameson and his lectures on geology and mineralogy , he completed his medical studies successfully, but never practiced as a medical doctor.
Instead, he made many geological journeys and published his research results in several papers.
During his expedition to the Shetland Islands , he discovered significant deposits of chromite .
In his work Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions from 1825 he tried to uncover the physical or physiological causes that lead some people to believe that they see ghosts and other phenomena.
His History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine , published in 1832, contains some of the very early references to loess occurrences in geological literature, the first ever in English-language geological literature and the first on a geological map . This geological map, attached to the 1832 document, The volcanic district bounded by the rivers Nette and Bruhl on the Lower Rhine , was drawn by his second wife, Charlotte Hibbert.
In 1835 he left Edinburgh and settled on a small family property in Hale Barns near Altrincham in Cheshire. In 1837 he took over the family name Hibbert-Ware with royal approval as representative of Sir James Ware, the historian of Ireland.
Samuel Hibbert was secretary of the Society of Scottish Antiquarians , was elected honorary member of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society in 1805 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1820 . He was also a member of the Royal Medical Society and the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh founded by John Fleming and Robert Jameson in 1808 . In 1840 Samuel Hibbert-Ware became a member of the Highland Society .
He is the first to describe the arthropod Eurypterus scouleri Hibbert , named by him in honor of the Scottish naturalist John Scouler , 1836, which the American arachnologist and paleontologist Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering in 1959 as a type species for the Hibbert-Ware he named in honor of Hibbert-Ware newly established sea scorpion genus Hibbertopterus Kjellesvig-Waering , 1959. The currently valid name of this taxon is thus Hibbertopterus scouleri ( Hibbert , 1836).
Richard Owen named in honor in 1840 his Rhizodontiden Rhizodus hibberti Owen , 1840th
Hibbert's first marriage was from 1803 to Sarah Crompton († 1822), his second marriage from 1825 to Charlotte Wilhelmina Scott, née Murray († 1835); and married in third marriage under the name Hibbert-Ware from 1842 to Elizabeth Lefroy. He had three children from his first marriage and three children from his second marriage.
Samuel Hibbert-Ware was buried in Ardwick Cemetery.
Fonts
- Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis De Vita Humana . Edinburgh 1817 ( digitized version )
- A description of the Shetland Islands, comprising an account of their scenery, antiquities and superstitions . Edinburgh 1822 (Reprinted by Manson, Lerwick 1891 digitized version )
- Sketches of the philosophy of apparitions; or, An attempt to trace such illusions to their physical causes . Second Enlarged Edition, Edinburgh 1825 ( digitized )
- History of the Extinct Volcanoes of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine . W. & D. Laing, Edinburgh 1832 ( digitized )
- On the Fresh-water Limestone of Burdiehouse in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, belonging to the Carboniferous Group of Rocks. With Supplementary Notes on other Fresh-water Limestones . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 13, 1, Edinburgh 1836, pp. 169–282 ( digitized version )
Geological map
- with Charlotte Hibbert: The volcanic district bounded by the rivers Nette and Bruhl on the Lower Rhine . 1832
literature
- Mary Clementina Hibbert-Ware: The life and correspondence of the late Samuel Hibbert Ware . Manchester 1882 ( digitized version )
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh: Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002, Biographical Index Part One , Edinburgh 2006, p. 439 ( PDF )
- Ian Smalley: Samuel Hibbert in Edinburgh; early studies on loess deposits- connecting Leonhard and Lyell . In: Quaternary International, 502, 2019, pp. 165-172
Web links
- Literature by and about Samuel Hibbert-Ware in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hibbert-Ware, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hibbert, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English geologist, paleontologist and antiquarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1848 |
| Place of death | Hale Barns at Altrincham |