William Jacob Holland

William Jacob Holland ( born August 16, 1848 in Bethany, Jamaica, † December 13, 1932 ) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and scientist and headed at times, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

Life

William Jacob Holland was a son of the clergyman Francis Raymond Holland and his wife Augusta Eliza. In 1851 his parents returned with him to the USA. The family first lived in Ohio, from 1858 in North Carolina and in 1863 in Pennsylvania. He received his education in Salem (North Carolina) and on the Moravian College in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), where he studied theology. In 1869 he transferred to Amherst College in Massachusetts and completed a comprehensive Bachelor of Science degree in his theological training. He then worked as a teacher, but ended on his father's request, the study of theology at Princeton and in 1874 became pastor in Pittsburgh. Here he met his future wife, Carrie probably Moorhead, whom he married on January 23, 1879.

After working at various churches, he was a teacher of ancient languages ​​at the Pennsylvania Female College; In 1891 he became Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and in 1898 director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In this position he remained until 1922.

In 1877, part of the Seventh World Congress of the Evangelical Alliance, 1887 in an expedition to Japan, which was carried out during a solar eclipse. In 1889 he traveled to West Africa. Holland, who has received numerous international awards, including President of the Entomological Society of Western Pennsylvania, was a member of the American Association of Museum, the Zoological and Entomological Society of London, the American Geological Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Bologna, the Academy of Sciences of La Plata, the Royal Society for Archaeology and Geography of Sweden and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain.

His works include The Butterfly Book, The Moth Book, The Butterfly Guide, To the River Plate and Back and numerous smaller publications. Under his aegis, the butterfly collection of the Carnegie Museum has been greatly expanded. In addition to the Lepidoptera interested him particularly fossil reptiles; the dinosaurs collection of the Carnegie Museum began with a specially excavated for the Museum Diplodocus carnegii.

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