Angelo Heilprin
Angelo Heilprin ( born March 31, 1853 in Sátoraljaújhely, † 1907) was an American naturalist, geologist, paleontologist, artist and photographer.
Life
Angelo Heilprin grew up as the son of the Biblical scholar Michael Heilprin (* 1823, † 1888) in north-eastern Hungary, and had with Louis Heilprin a brother. In 1856 he emigrated with his father to the United States. Some years later he returned to Europe and studied from 1876 to 1878 at the Royal School of Mines in London, the Imperial Geological Society in Vienna and Florence and Geneva. He then traveled back to the U.S..
From 1880 to 1900 Heilprin held the chairs of Paleontology invertebrates and Geology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and was 1883-1892 at the same time the responsible curator of the local museum. In addition, he worked from 1885 to 1890 as a lecturer in geology at also based in Philadelphia Wagner Free Institute of Science and was for a term of seven years, the first president of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. In 1886 he took a trip to Florida to investigate the geological structure of the peninsula, and two years later, he studied with the same goal in Bermuda. Angelo Heilprin 1890 organized an expedition to Mexico for research in the central plateau and climbed in the wake of this, the amount of which he determined the volcanoes Iztaccihuatl, Pico de Orizaba and Popocatépetl based on barometric measurements. However Heilprin also conducted research in the polar regions and stepped example, in 1892 as leader of the expedition Robert Edwin Peary to Greenland in appearance. In 1900 he accepted an offer from Yale University for a Chair in Geography.
1901/1902 he initiated the founding of the American Alpine Club.
Great fame Angelo Heilprin through his studies at the volcano Mount Pelée on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, which he toured after its catastrophic outbreak with 30,000 deaths in 1902. He climbed the mountain, climbed into the crater and created a still very well-known series of photographs of the volcano and the destruction that made him extremely well known outside of the scientific community. The following year he again visited the island.
In 1905 he was involved with his brother in the preparation of the new edition of the local lexicon Lippincott 's New Gazetteer. Angelo Heilprin died in 1907 at the age of only 54 years. Posthumously honored him as one eponym of two species:
- In the crow family birds in the genus Blue Ravens got the kind Lilac Blue Raven the Latin name Cyanocorax heilprini;
- The tree frog Hypsiboas heilprini is also named after him.
Artistic work
In addition to his scientific work Angelo Heilprin operated temporarily as an artist. He presented in 1880 in the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts painting Autumn's First Whisper. 1883 was followed by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the scene Forest Exiles.