Angelo Heilprin

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Angelo Heilprin

Angelo Heilprin (March 31, 1853 – July 17,

explorer
.

He is mostly known for the part he took into the

Montagne Pelée in Martinique
.

He also was a

painter
.

Biography

Angelo Heilprin was born at

Jewish.[1] He arrived in the United States from the Austrian Empire with his father Michael and his brother Louis in 1856.[2]

He went back to Europe in 1876 for two years to complete his education. He studied at the Royal School of Mines, London,[3] at the Imperial Geological Institution of Vienna, and at Florence (where he had his only formal training in painting) and Geneva; he also went to Hungary, where he mountaineered in the Carpathians, and to Poland where he visited family for six months.[4]

He then became professor of

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (1880–1900), curator of the museum of that institution (1883–1892), professor of geology at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia (1885–1890); and he was the first president of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, serving for seven years.[5] In 1883, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[6]

Also a painter, Heilprin exhibited Autumn's First Whisper at the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
in 1883.

In 1902 he founded the American Alpine Club.[7]

In 1904, he was appointed as a lecturer[8] at Yale.

Research

One of Heilprin's most famous photographs: the ruined city of Saint-Pierre, with the Montagne Pelée volcano lost in cloud in the background

In Heilprin's life research travels alternate with periods of teaching and writing. He visited Florida, the Bermudas, Mexico, Greenland and Martinique while also devoting work to his more immediate surroundings. His mountaineering skills were put to use many times in his scientific work.

In 1886, Heilprin undertook an expedition to the then little-known west coast of Florida.[9]
In

Bermudas with members of his classes to study coral reefs, confirming Charles Darwin's 1842 views expressed in The structure and distribution of coral reefs.[10]

In
Yucatan and the coral reefs of the western Gulf of Mexico.[11]

En

Academy of Natural Sciences. Peary was the leader of the north-bound expedition, which was to prove that Greenland is an island. Heilprin headed the "Western Expedition" comprising half a dozen scientists.[12] The scientists collected data then returned to the U.S., while Peary remained in Greenland.[13] But the next year Heilprin was back to Greenland, leading the "Peary relief expedition".[14][15]

In

Montagne Pelée in Martinique erupted,[16] reducing the city of Saint-Pierre to ashes, Heilprin was one of the first scientists to arrive to the site. His works, photographs and eyewitness account of the phenomena and their consequences are unique. He was the first geologist to ascend a side of the crater.[17]
He revisited it in 1903 and in February 1906 descended into the crater itself.

Remembrance

Eponymy

Selected works and documents

Selected works

Articles for the general public

With Louis Heilprin

  • Lippincott's new gazetteer: a complete pronouncing gazetteer or geographical dictionary of the world, containing the most recent and authentic information respecting the countries, cities, towns, resorts, islands, rivers, mountains, seas, lakes, etc., in every portion of the globe, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 2 vol., 1916, ©1911 New edition: 1922

Documents

References

External links

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Notes

  1. ^ Lee Levinger, A History of the Jews in the United States, Wildside Press LLC (2007), p. 302
  2. American Cyclopædia and Phineas Mendel joined the family in 1859. Appletons
    .
    Pollak is a source for Michael's and Louis' biographies.
  3. Henry Newell Martin of Johns Hopkins University. Heilprin might have accepted a fellowship there but the letter informing him of the possibility never reached him. Pollak, p. 239
  4. ^ Pollak, page 238
  5. ^ "Addresses Delivered at the Meeting Held in Honor of the Memory of Professor Angelo Heilprin". Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. VI. Jan 1908.
  6. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  7. ^ a b "Angelo Heilprin Citation - American Alpine Club". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
  8. ^ Historical Register of Yale University 1701-1937. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University. 1939. p. 304.
  9. ISBN 9782710807490
  10. ^ Pollak, p. 259
  11. ^ The results of that research trip to Mexico (and that of 1906) were never published. They can however be found in the proceedings of the Academy and in Heilprin's papers. Excerpts can be found in Pollak, pp. 260–263.
  12. ^ There also was a reporter of the New York Herald.
  13. ^ Pollak, p. 265
  14. ^ Description of the Heilprin documents of the expedition
  15. ^ "Peary Relief Expedition […]". The New York Times. June 28, 1892. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
  16. ^ 08-05-1902
  17. OCLC 61549644
    .
  18. hdl:2246/4342
    .
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