George Ord
George Ord ( * March 4, 1781 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ∞ 1804 Margaret Biays; † January 24, 1866 ) was an American naturalist and ornithologist.
Life
Born the son of Seiler and sea captain George Ord ( † 1806) and Rebecca Linde Meyer in 1781, Ord studied early and Literature. He began his professional career but in his father's business, which he supported from 1800 until his death. In 1804 he married Margaret Biays († 1806), daughter of the Seiler and shipbuilder Joseph Biays from Baltimore. When she died, she left him three children, one of which was only grown, the painter Joseph Biays Ord ( 1805-1865 ). His second wife, about which hardly anything is known, had always struggled with mental health problems. Ord eventually withdrew in 1829 completely from the business world back in order to devote more time science can. He is particularly interested in birds and mammals, and words fascinated him in the philological sense.
Ord in 1815 a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. There he took a number of important positions:
- Secretary,
- Librarian,
- Treasurer,
- Chancellor and
- Vice President.
From 1851 to 1858 he held the post of the President. From 1817 he was also a member of the American Philosophical Society. Ord received some species of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804-06 ) for the description, including the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis ) and pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana).
Ord was a friend and colleague of the Scottish poet and science detention Jewellers Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), whom he accompanied on some of his travels. After Wilson's death Ord finished the eighth and ninth band of Wilson's work American Ornithology ( 1808-32 ). In 1828 Ord wrote a biography of Wilson. Furthermore, he later published biographies of scientists such as Prof. Dr. Thomas Say (1787-1834) and Charles -Alexandre Le Sueur ( 1778-1846 ). He also assisted in the expansion of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Dictionary Dictionary of the English Language (1755 ) and the first edition of Noah Webster ( 1758-1843 ) An American Dictionary of the English Language (1842 ). However, he was not good on John James La Forest Audubon (1785-1851) to speak because he did not like his drawings, and Audubon was trying to tear the position Wilsons itself.
George Ord died on 24 January 1866 and was buried in Philadelphia alongside Wilson in the cemetery of the Gloria Dei Church.
Works
- Sketch of the Life of Alexander Wilson, author of American Ornithology. Hall, Philadelphia 1828th