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Frederik Adolph De Roepstorff
Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff (25 March 1842 – 24 October 1883) was a Danish philologist who worked in the Andaman penal colony in India, in charge of the Nicobar Islands, where he was shot dead by a convict. He studied the languages of Andaman and Nicobar tribes and collected numerous specimens of fauna and flora. The Andaman masked owl (''Tyto deroepstorffi'') was named after him by Hume. Biography De Roepstorff was born aboard an English ship sailing from Madras to Europe near the Cape of Good Hope and baptized in Cape Town giving him English citizenship. He was the son of Captain Adolph de Roepstorff and Charlotte Georgiana Holmes, born Farley. He studied in Copenhagen and at Horsens Statsskole graduating in 1863. He went to India in 1867 and became an extra assistant superintendent in the Andaman Islands penal colony and later became in-charge of the Nicobar Islands. His work was to supervise the prisoners. He went back to Denmark in 1871, married Hedevig Christiane Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Stoliczka
Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech written Stolička, 7 June 1838 – 19 June 1874) was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. He died of high altitude sickness in Murgo during an expedition across the Himalayas. Early life Stoliczka was born at the lodge ''Zámeček'' near Kroměříž in Moravia. Stoliczka, whose father was a forester who took care of the estate of the Archbishop of Olomouc, studied at a German Secondary school in Kroměříž. Although Stoliczka published 79 articles from 1859–1875, he never wrote anything in Czech. It is believed that he spoke German at home. In his Calcutta years he was an important figure in the German-speaking community there. Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes. He graduated with a Ph D from the University of Tübingen on 14 November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Ethnologists
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk * List of Danes * Languages of Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely Faroese, German, and Greenlandic. A large majority (about 86%) of Danes also s ... {{disambiguation Language a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, surveyor, naturalist and geologist. He explored the mountains in the Himalayas and surveyed the glaciers at the base of K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen. Geographer Kenneth Mason called Godwin-Austen "probably the greatest mountaineer of his day". He also remains the most important investigator of the terrestrial molluscs of the Indian subcontinent. Early life The eldest son of the geologist Robert Austen, who in 1854 added Godwin to his surname by royal licence, Henry Haversham Austen was probably born at Ogwell House, near Newton Abbot, Devon, where his father had recently taken up residence. His father's family, landowners in Cheshire and Surrey since the 12th century, was a family of merchant venturers, soldiers, scholars, and collectors. His grandfather, Sir Henry Edmund Austen (1785– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Nevill (malacologist)
Geoffrey Nevill (October 5, 1843 - February 10, 1885) was an English malacologist who worked in the Indian Museum in Kolkata. He was the younger brother of Hugh Nevill, British civil servant in Sri Lanka. Nevill was born in Holloway, the second son of William Nevill, a geologist who lived for sometime in Godalming. He was educated at H.D. Heatley's school in Brighton and also spent some time in Bonn at the home of Dr F.H. Troschel, professor of zoology. He took an early interest in molluscs and made collections from around his home at Godalming and also from Germany. Most of these were deposited in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. He then tried to work with his father but poor health led to being sent off to warmer climates and he travelled around South Africa, Mauritius, and Bourbon, continuing his collections. He stayed in the Seychelles from 1868 for some time before going to Calcutta where he worked at the Indian Museum. His health declined and he moved to Europe, with some ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch
Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (his last name also spelled Mørch) (17 May 1828 – 25 January 1878) was a biologist, specifically a malacologist. He lived in Sweden, in Denmark, and in France. Taxa described * Bibliography and taxa described by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch include: 1863 Mörch O. A. L. (1863). "Revision des especes du genre ''Oxynoe'' Rafinesque, et ''Lobiger'' Krohn". ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' 114348. * ''Oxynoe antillarum'' Mörch, 1863 on page 46 1864 Mörch O. A. L. (1864). "Fortegnelse over de i Danmark forekommende land- og ferskvandsblöddyr". ''Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn'' (2)1863(17-22): 265–367. * ''Valvata macrostoma'' Mörch, 1864 * Zonitidae Mörch, 1864, also known as the "true glass snails". Taxa named after Mörch * ''Glossodoris moerchi'' (Bergh, 1879) * ''Turbonilla mörchi ''Turbonilla mörchi'' is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diceros Roepstorffi
''Diceros'' (Greek: "two" (dio), "horn" (keratos)) is a genus of rhinoceros containing the living black rhinoceros ''(Diceros bicornis)'' and at least one extinct species. Taxonomy ''Diceros'' is generally believed to have branched off from an early species of ''Ceratotherium ''Ceratotherium'' (Greek: "horn" (keratos), "beast" (therion)) is a genus of the family Rhinocerotidae, consisting of a single extant species, the white rhinoceros The white rhinoceros, white rhino or square-lipped rhinoceros (''Ceratotherium ...'', specifically '' C. neumayri''. However an even older species than ''C. neumayri'' from the Miocene has been placed in ''Diceros'' ''( D.australis)''. '' D. praecox'' is considered the direct ancestor of the black rhinoceros. References External links * * Rhinoceroses Mammal genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by John Edward Gray Taxa described in 1821 {{Oddtoedungulate-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyto Deroepstorffi
The Andaman masked owl (''Tyto deroepstorffi'') is a barn owl endemic to the southern Andaman Islands, an archipelago between India and Myanmar, in the Bay of Bengal.Bruce, M.D., Christie, D.A., Kirwan, G.M. & Marks, J.S. (2017). Common Barn-owl (''Tyto alba''). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/54929 on 6 September 2017). Regarded by some authors as a subspecies of the common barn owl (''Tyto alba''), it is recognized by others as a species in its own right. Taxonomy The species was named by Allan Octavian Hume after the collector Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff who shot it at Aberdeen, Andamans. Hume placed it in the genus ''Strix''. Some authors consider this bird to be a subspecies of the barn owl/ western barn owl ''(Tyto alba)'',or the eastern barn owl (''Tyto javanica''), but König, in his ''Owls of the World'', recogni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Horace Man
Edward Horace Man (1846 – 28 September 1929) was a British administrator and anthropologist who studied the Andaman and Nicobar tribes in the 19th century. His collections of artefacts and photographs are held in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Man was the son of Captain Henry Man of the Madras Staff Corps and Emma Martha. Captain Henry Man had helped establish the penal settlement at Port Blair and was later briefly Resident Councillor at Singapore before returning to Port Blair. Captain Henry Man took an interest in the Andamanese people and conducted some explorations of kitchen middens at some sites on the islands. Little is known of Man's early life but he joined his father in October 1869 and became an assistant superintendent at the Penal Settlement. He also served as a treasurer from 1869 to 1870 and as officer in charge of the Andaman Homes from 1875 to 1879. Between 1880 and 1882 he visited England on leave and visited various societies and passed on some of his collections to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini (March 21, 1838 – March 24, 1905) was an Italian astronomer. He was born and raised in Modena, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Padova. At the age of 21, he was appointed the director of a small observatory in Modena. By 1863 he became the ''Primo Astronomo Aggiunto'', or director of the observatory, at Palermo, Italy. He remained there until 1879, and focused most of his attention on observations of the Sun. In 1865 he founded the specialist physical astronomy journal, ''Memorie della Società degli Spettroscopisti'', and remained the editor until 1905. (This publication later became the ''Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana'' in 1920.) Tacchini established an observation network with other Italian astronomers to spectroscopically examine the sun at about the same time daily. He likewise organized an observatory in Calcutta to watch the sun when conditions were unfavorable in Italy. In 1874 he led an expedition to Muddapur, India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pedler
Sir Alexander Pedler (21 May 1849 – 13 May 1918) was a British civil servant and chemist who worked in the Presidency College, Calcutta where he influenced early studies in chemistry in India by working with pioneer scientists like Prafulla Chandra Ray. He helped found the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Calcutta which in its early days was involved in reaching out to lay citizens interested in science. Biography Pedler was the son of George Stanbury Pedler, a pharmacist on Fleet Street, and Hannah Rideal. He was privately schooled and educated at the City of London School. With a Bell scholarship he studied at the laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain from 1866. He worked as a chemical assistant at the Royal Institution, working with Herbert McLeod, Edward Frankland, and Norman Lockyer. He worked with Lockyer examining the spectra from solar prominences in Sicily when the latter discovered helium on the earth in 1868. He also was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
