Jacob Boll
Jacob Boll | |
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| Born | May 28, 1828 Wilbarger County, Texas, US |
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| Fields | Paleontology, Entomology |
Jacob Boll (28 May 1828 – 29 September 1880) was a Swiss
entomologist especially noted for his exploration of the Texas Red Beds
.
Boll was born 1828 in Würenlos, Switzerland, and educated as a pharmacist in Switzerland and Germany. Established as a naturalist, he turned his attention to microlepidoptera and established contact with
La Réunion
socialist utopian community. The Bolls left the commune after the first year and established a farm in Dallas near the current Baylor Medical Center. Jacob visited his family in Texas circa 1867, and then returned to Switzerland.
In 1869 he met with
Eduard Dämle and the Swiss government. Similar arrangements were made with Agassiz and in 1870 he collected insects in New England
.
Boll settled permanently in the U.S. after his wife Henriette (Humbel)s' death in 1873. He lived in Dallas. In 1878 he collected Permian vertebrate fossils in northwest Texas for Edward Drinker Cope of Philadelphia. These collections are now in the American Museum of Natural History.
Boll published a number of papers in botany, entomology, and geology. He was a Member of the
Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum
.
In 1880, Boll died in
Dallas
.
He is not to be confused with
Ernst Friedrich August Boll, also an entomologist and also specialising in Lepidoptera
.
References
- ISBN 9781681778655.
Further reading
- Geiser, S. W. Naturalists of the Frontier. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1937; 2d ed. 1948. Includes Bibliography
- Dictionary of American Biography New York: Scribner, 1929.
- Jacob Boll from the Handbook of Texas Online
- Dallas Pioneers
- Therese Steffen Gerber: Jakob Boll in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2004-08-11.
- Scientific American, "Jacob Boll", 23 October 1880, p. 257
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