Víctor López Seoane

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Víctor López Seoane

Víctor López Seoane y Pardo-Montenegro (born September 28, 1832 in Ferrol , † July 14, 1900 in A Coruña ) was a Spanish medic , naturalist and zoologist . Known beyond the borders of Spain, he belonged to the elite of the naturalists of the 19th century and was a respected scientific colleague of Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin , with whom he maintained intensive contacts.

Live and act

Seoane was the son of a naval officer stationed in Vigo . Contrary to the family tradition of joining the Seestreetkraft as a cadet, Seoane preferred to do his Abitur at a university in Tui , then to enroll at the University of Santiago de Compostela , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy in July 1851.

He then studied medicine and a minor in natural science in Santiago , where he set up his first herbarium and then in Madrid and Granada . As early as 1853, during his studies in Madrid, he gave his first lectures in botany at the Museo Popular . In 1857 he moved to Granada in Andalusia , where he made the acquaintance of Christian Ludwig and Alfred Brehm , which prompted him, in addition to his medical studies, to shift his interests more to ornithology and bird watching in the region. In 1861 he again successfully completed his medical studies with the state examination in Santiago.

Then, from 1862 to 1864, he taught physics, chemistry and natural history at a newly founded high school in A Coruña, the Instituto de Bachillerato , and founded a natural history cabinet, which he enriched with his own collections. Then, in 1864, he returned to his native Ferrol and worked as a doctor in a naval hospital. During this time, in 1869, he married the wealthy widow Francisca Riobóo Álvarez (1834-1919), resigned from his post as a doctor in 1870 and moved back to A Coruña, where he lived on his wife's lands in O Allo (province of Zas ) worked as a farmer and at the same time engaged in administrative tasks of the province. His administrative activities prompted him to start a new study of law in Santiago in 1874 , which he completed as a licentiate in Oviedo .

With the Spanish naturalists and zoologists such. Well known to B. Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia , Mariano de la Paz Graëlls y de la Aguera and Juan Lembeye , on his extensive travels through Europe in 1978 he also met the leading figures in this area of ​​the continent with Raphaël Blanchard , George Albert Boulenger , Charles Darwin , Anton Dohrn , Albert Günther , Ernst Haeckel, Ragnar Hult and Heinrich Moritz Willkomm personally. The recognition of Seoane's scientific merits is also expressed in the fact that he was elected to the Comité de Patronage together with Bolívar y Urrutia and Mariano de la Paz Graëlls at the first International Zoological Congress in Paris in 1889 .

Seoane was a member of the most important societies and academies in Europe (zoology, botany, entomology and geology) as well as the Medical-Surgical Academy in Madrid and the Council for Agriculture, Industry and Trade , of which he was president in the last years of his life. In Spain he fought for the recognition of Charles Darwin's theses and his final goal of a comprehensive modern natural history of Galicia , which he could no longer complete because of his demise.

Fonts

  • The Orthoptera of the Spanish-Portuguese Peninsula ; Stettin: R. Grassmann, 1878.
  • New soil genus and species from the Philippines ; Frankfurt: Christian Winter, 1881, WorldCat .

Secondary literature

  • Carballal Duran, Regina .; Xose Antón Fraga; Gracía Molares, Aida. e Reinoso Franco, Juán. (1992): A Colección de Musgos, Hepáticas e Liques de López Seoane e Hult . Seminario de Estudos Galegos, Area de Bioloxía. O Castro-Sada (A Coruña): Ediciós do Castro.
  • Fraga Vázquez, XA (1988): Embrioloxía e taxonomía a fins do século XIX. As notas embriolóxicas de López Seoane (1881) no contexto da Herpetoloxía europea . Ingenium , 1 : 27-58.
  • Fraga Vázquez, XA (1988): A Herpetoloxía a fins do século XIX: o labor de López Seoane . Estudios sobre Historia de la Ciencia y de la Técnica , II : 867-879. Valladolid .
  • Fraga Vázquez, XA (1989): Novos dados sobre os contactos entre Darwin e López Seoane (1881) e unha valoración global da influencia darwinista no labor científico do naturalista galego . Revista do Instituto "José Cornide" de Estudios Coruñeses , 22 : 5-26. A Coruña.
  • Fraga Vázquez, XA (1992): Víctor López Seoane . Editorial Gaesa.
  • Baltasar Merino (1907): Don Víctor López Seoane como naturalista . En VV.AA. Linneo en España : 327-340. Saragossa : M. Escar.
  • Ron Pedreira, A. (1983): Víctor López Seoane, naturalista gallego. Notas para una biografía . Concepción Arenal. Ciencias y Humanidades , 4 : 45-50. Ferrol.

proof

  1. ↑ a b Isolde Schmidt: López Seoane, Víctor Ramón Lexicon of important natural scientists, Volume 2, Elsevier , p. 431, 2007 Munich, ISBN 978-3-8274-1883-8
  2. ↑ a b WaybackMachine: Víctor López Seoane. Instituto José Cornide de Estudos Coruñeses, accessed April 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Francisca RIOBOO y Álvarez. Geneall, accessed April 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Fraga Vázquez: Víctor López Seoane - O grande naturalista galego ea perversión da orixinalidade científica. culturagalega, May 26, 2013, accessed April 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Isabel Bugallal: El amigo gallego de Darwin. Faro de Vigo, April 20, 2013, accessed April 11, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME López Seoane, Víctor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López Seoane y Pardo-Montenegro, Víctor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish zoologist and medic, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrol
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1900
Place of death A Coruña