Edmund Montgomery

Edmund Duncan Montgomery ( born March 19, 1835 in Edinburgh, † April 17, 1911 in Austin, Texas) was a Scottish philosopher, scientist and physician.

Education and work

The Scot left already as an infant with his mother, his home via Paris to Frankfurt. In 1852, Montgomery accepted at the University of Heidelberg to study medicine, which he completed on 18 February 1858 Promotion and state exams in Würzburg. In addition to the medicine he was interested in philosophy. After a short stay in Prague (1858 ) and Vienna ( 1859), he found in 1860 in London a permanent jobs as a physician and began his research on cellular customer. In December 1862 he became a member of the London Royal College of Physicians. At this time, however, Montgomery was already seriously ill with tuberculosis, which forced him to drive in November 1863 for a cure to Madeira.

On the side of Elisabet Ney

Already in Heidelberg, he had fallen in love with the young artist Elisabet Ney. The two married in Madeira on November 7, 1863. 1871 the couple immigrated to the United States, where both initially near Thomasville (Georgia ) managed a small farm. In Texas Montgomery acquired near the Hempstead Liendo Plantation. Here Montgomery was able to devote himself entirely to his research, the philosophy, but also of agriculture and livestock again. He has contributed significantly to the development in 1876 of Hempstead, by participating in the creation of the "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youths ". Opened in 1878, it was actually the first state-supported school in Texas, in which African-American students were allowed to enroll. In September, 1907, shortly after Elizabeth's death, Montgomery suffered a stroke that made him an invalid, but that did not stop from writing his last works. On April 17, 1911, the naturalist philosopher died and was buried beside his wife in Liendo.