Joseph LeConte
Joseph Le Conte (alternative spelling: Joseph LeConte) (February 26, 1823 – July 6, 1901) was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, early California conservationist, and eugenicist.
Early life
Of
Career
After graduating from Harvard, Le Conte in 1851 accompanied Agassiz on an expedition to study the Florida Reef.[2] On his return he became professor of natural science at Oglethorpe University, which was located in Midway, Georgia, at the time,[4] and from December 1852 until 1856 professor of natural history and geology at Franklin College (the sole college at the University of Georgia at that time).[2] From 1857 to 1869 he was a professor of chemistry and geology at South Carolina College, which is now the University of South Carolina.[5]
On January 14, 1846, he married Caroline Nisbet, a niece of
During the
Discouraged by unsettled postwar conditions at the University of South Carolina, in 1868 he accepted an offer of a professorship at the newly established
He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1873.[7]
He published a series of papers on
Legacy
In 1874, he was nominated to the
He died of a heart attack in Yosemite Valley, California, on July 6, 1901, right before the Sierra Club's first
Leconte, along with other founders of the Sierra Club were advocates of white supremacy and supporters of the eugenics movement in the United States.[17][18] The elementary school at 2241 Russell Street in Berkeley was named for Joseph LeConte from 1892 until 2018,[19] when it was renamed due to concerns regarding his views on race.[20]
Another building at UC Berkeley was also renamed, as announced on July 7, 2020, due to the LeConte brothers' support of white supremacy and vigorous white supremacy writings in that regard.[21][22][23][24]
See also
- Neo-Lamarckism
References
- ^ "LeConte family". New Georgia Encyclopedia. 2003.
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Le Conte, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ S2CID 222084976.
- ^ a b Reed, Thomas Walter (1949). History of the University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia. pp. 401–405.
- OCLC 14698867– via Internet Archive.
- ^ LeConte, Joseph (1903). Autobiography of Joseph LeConte. p. 238.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Birch, Charles, "Participatory Evolution: the Drive of Creation," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 40:147-163 (June 1972)". Archived from the original on July 6, 2008.
- ISBN 0-226-24613-2
- ^ a b c d "Joseph LeConte: Scientist and Savant". Sierra Club History. Sierra Club. Archived from the original on 2007-08-27. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ISBN 0-8137-1155-X
- ^ Godfrey, Elizabeth H. (April 1946). "Joseph N. LeConte" (PDF). Yosemite Nature Notes. 25 (4): 66–69.
- ^ Silliman, Benjamin (1901). "Obituary". American Journal of Science. 12: 248.
- ^ Farquhar, F.P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. Mountaineers.
- ^ "UGA Alumni Heritage". 2015-10-29. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ "The impact of Joseph LeConte (1869–1901)". UC Berkeley. 2010-04-11.
- ^ Nijhuis, Michelle (2021-04-12). "Don't Cancel John Muir". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ Wernick, Adam (2020-08-09). "Green groups grapple with a history of racism and exclusion". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ "History of Sylvia Mendez | Berkeley Unified School District". www.berkeleyschools.net. 3 August 2011.
- ^ "LeConte Elementary renamed for Sylvia Mendez, desegregation pioneer". 2018-05-24.
- ^ SFGATE, Katie Dowd (2020-07-07). "UC Berkeley may rename halls honoring white supremacist, anthropologist". SFGate. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
- ^ "UC Berkeley's LeConte and Barrows halls lose their names". 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Chancellor Christ on the unnaming of LeConte and Barrows halls". 18 November 2020.
- ^ "UC Berkeley strips the names of professors with racist views off 3 buildings". 18 November 2020.