Ezequiel Uricoechea

Ezequiel Uricoechea ( born April 9, 1834 in Bogota ( Colombia), † July 28, 1880 in Beirut ( Lebanon) ) was one of the first naturalist and polymath Colombia.

Life

Uricoechea began in 1849 with a double degree in medicine and mathematics at Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ) and received his doctorate there for Dr. med. Then he made a trip to Europe and took from 1852 to 1854 at the University of Göttingen a scientific study on. There he received his doctorate in 1854 one more time at the chemist Friedrich Wöhler with a dissertation "On the iridium and its compounds ".

From 1857 to 1867 he was professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Bogota. He also was interested in detail for local archeology, cartography, naturopathy and bibliography. He was the founder in 1859 of the Sociedad de Natura Lista Colombianos. As a linguist, he studied with the South American languages.

Uricoechea traveled to Europe again in 1868 and was appointed in 1878 in Brussels to the chair of Arabic. Günther Schütz has devoted Uricoechea numerous publications.

Writings

• Mapoteca colom bian, London 1860
• Collection linguistique américaine, 5 volumes, Paris 1871-1878
• Antigüedades Neogranadinas, digitized version of the Digital Library of the Caribbean

Honors

Ezequiel Uricoechea in 1980 honored with a plaque in Göttingen, which had been proposed by the former Colombian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Jaime Jaramillo Uribe.