Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich

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Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich (born June 24, 1796 in Glatz , Silesia ; † June 30, 1825 in Massawa , Ottoman Empire ) was a Prussian naturalist, zoologist and doctor.

Life

Hemprich studied medicine in Breslau and Berlin and received his doctorate. In Berlin he made friends with Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , who also had a great interest in natural history . In 1820/21 both were invited by Martin Lichtenstein on an expedition to Egypt , which they were supposed to support as naturalists. The trip went from Cairo to Derna . On a second expedition from 1821 to 1825, they traveled south along the Nile , crossed the Sinai desert and Lebanon, and traveled the Red Sea . On the way they collected natural history samples. Hemprich died of malaria in the port of Massawa .

Hemprich was a member of the Corps Teutonia Breslau and Borussia Breslau (1819). In 1820 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . His brother was the well doctor Carl Heinrich Hemprich (1798–1844) from Cudowa .

Works

  • Symbolæ physicæ. Mittler, Berlin 1828-33 pm. (co: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg)
  • Travels in Egypt, Libya, Nubia and Dongola. Mittler, Berlin 1828 pm.
  • Outline of natural history for higher educational institutions. Rücker, Berlin 1820-29 pm.

Dedication names

Two bird species are named after Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich:

literature

  • Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg: Natural history journeys through North Africa and West Asia in the years 1820 to 1825 by Dr. WF Hemprich and Dr. CG Ehrenberg, Historical Part. Mittler, Berlin 1828.
  • Friedrich Ratzel:  Hemprich, Wilhelm Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 728 f.
  • Erwin Stresemann: The journeys of two natural research friends in the Orient, described in their letters from the years 1819-1826. in treatises of the mathematical and natural science class of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin. No. 1, Berlin 1954.
  • Robert Mertens:  Hemprich, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 514 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, "18", 16
  2. ↑ Walter Schmidt : Life fates. Persecuted Silesian fraternities from the early 19th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 449-521, here: p. 490.
  3. ↑ GedBas
  4. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds . Christopher Helm, London 2003, p. 205 .
personal data
SURNAME Hemprich, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian naturalist, zoologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Kłodzko (Glatz)
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1825
Place of death Massawa , Eritrea