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The Life and Work Final.Indd See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317348403 The Life and Work of Rudolph Amandus Philippi (1808-1904) Article in Malacologia · June 2017 DOI: 10.4002/040.060.0103 CITATIONS READS 3 258 2 authors: Alan R Kabat Eugene Victor Coan Harvard University Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 30 PUBLICATIONS 326 CITATIONS 179 PUBLICATIONS 1,391 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Marine Bivalve Mollusks of Western South America View project All content following this page was uploaded by Alan R Kabat on 05 June 2017. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. MALACOLOGIA, 2017, 60(1−2): 1−30 THE LIFE AND WORK OF RUDOLPH AMANDUS PHILIPPI (1808–1904) Alan R. Kabat1 & Eugene V. Coan2 ABSTRACT This paper provides a biography of Rudolph Amandus Philippi (1808–1904), emphasizing his malacological research and his contributions to the natural history of Chile. Philippi is one of the most important, yet overlooked malacologists of the 19th century. He authored significant publications on the Recent and fossil molluscs of Sicily; the Oligocene fossil mol- luscs of northern Germany; the Jurassic to Recent molluscs of Chile, and marine molluscs from around the world. Philippi was also an instrumental contributor to both the Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie and the second edition of the Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, and he founded the Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien. In a companion paper (Coan & Kabat, 2017), we provide an annotated catalog of the 2,528 species, 40 genera and 3 families that he described in the Mollusca, and a full bibliography, with collations, of Philippi’s numerous malacological publications. TABLE OF CONTENTS archaeology. Even though Philippi was one of the most prolific malacologists in terms of the Introduction and Biographical Sources 1 number of his publications and new taxa, his R. A. Philippi’s Early Years 2 life is poorly documented in the malacological Natural History in the New World 6 literature – there was only one short obituary of Philippi’s Life in Chile 9 him in any malacological serial (Kobelt, 1904), Philippi and the Outside World 10 and the otherwise detailed history of conchol- Philippi’s Later Years in Chile 10 ogy by Dance (1986: 139, 194, 222) devotes Philippi’s Malacological Publications 13 only five short sentences to him. Note on Orthography 17 Hence, we provide a summary of the key R. A. Philippi’s Relatives 17 biographical sources for Philippi’s life. While Philippi’s Contributions to Other Taxa 21 Philippi was in the last decade of his life, he Philippi’s Heritage 23 published several autobiographical essays that Acknowledgments 23 focused on his travels in Europe and his early Literature Cited 24 years in Chile (Philippi, 1895, 1898, 1901a, 1902, 1903, 1904). More remarkably – and perhaps unique among 19th century malacolo- INTRODUCTION & BIOGRAPHICAL gists – Philippi prepared an autobiography in SOURCES 1897 to 1898, Mein Leben: Meine Lebens- beschreibung (nur für meine Kinder) [My life: Philippi is probably the least well-known my autobiography (only for my children)]. The of the major 19th century malacologists and first 20 or so pages are apparently handwrit- paleontologists, even though his general life ten by Philippi himself in German, in a very has been documented in a wide range of cramped script; the remaining several hundred biographical and autobiographical sources. pages were dictated to his assistant, Bernhard This present-day knowledge gap probably Gotschlich, who transcribed them with slightly arises from the fact that Philippi was such a more legible handwriting (Ochsenius, 1904: polymath, publishing widely on plants, insects, 149). Fortunately, a photocopy of the handwrit- other invertebrates, vertebrates, and even ten manuscript is now housed in the archives 1Research Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.; [email protected] 2Research Associate, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, California 93105, U.S.A.; [email protected] 1 2 KABAT & COAN of the Deutsch-Chilenische Bund/Liga Chileno- the earliest known connection of this name Alemana (Santiago). Even more fortunately, with R. A. Philippi is his great-grandfather, Carlos Köbrich Uslar prepared a typewritten Gerardus Philippi (also known as Gerdt Philip) version in 1993, which although not having (1665–1736), a life-long native of Hamm, then the same pagination as the handwritten origi- a small town in the Ruhr district, northwestern nal, is far more legible and has been quoted Germany. His son, Franciscus Wilhelmus herein (the typewritten version is in the Liga Philippi (1710–1768), also a native of Hamm, Chileno-Alemana, with a photocopy in the Bib- had a son, Johann Wilhelm Eberhard Philippi liothek des Naturkundemuseums im Ottoneum, (1761–1836), born in Hamm, and who moved to Kassel, Germany). Gotschlich (1904) quoted Berlin (Otto, 1961; Schwarzenberg de Schmalz, from the autobiography, but as it remained in 1968: 65). J. W. E. Philippi, an auditor for the possession of Philippi’s descendants, it was Prussian government, had five children from largely overlooked until recent years, when two previous marriages, and then married Maria it was extensively used by Patience Schell, a Anna Krumwiede in 1806. Their son Rudolph historian of science, in her thorough analysis Amandus Philippi was born on 14 September of Darwin, Philippi, and other naturalists in 1808, in Charlottenburg, which was then a Chile in the 19th century (Schell, 2013); previ- western suburb of Berlin, and is now within its ously, two historians of science quoted from the city limits. Philippi was the oldest of two chil- handwritten version (Blancpain, 1974; Wunder, dren of this marriage; Bernhard Eunom Philippi 1988), and the section covering the 1848 revo- (1811–1852) was his younger brother. lution in Germany and Philippi’s move to Chile In 1818, at a relatively young age, Rudolph was translated into French (Blancpain, 1974: and Bernhard went with their mother to Yver- 1061–1065). Recently, most of this autobiogra- don, Switzerland, ostensibly so that the boys phy was translated into Spanish with extensive could be educated at the Pestalozzian Institute, annotations (Philippi, 1897−1898). set up by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746– Four of Philippi’s colleagues authored 1827). This elementary school was known for lengthy contemporaneous memorials that its innovative teaching methods, particularly provide additional information from a variety of the use of real objects to teach the natural perspectives, although bordering on hagiogra- sciences, at a time when most education was phies: Diego Barros Arana (1830–1907), the pure rote learning and memorization, and it first historian of Chile and a faculty colleague had a significant effect on the Philippi brothers of Philippi at the Universidad de Chile (Barros (Philippi, 1895). Philippi, late in his life, particu- Arana, 1904); Paul Fürstenberg, an educa- larly recalled making collections of plants and tor in Berlin and Chile (Fürstenberg, 1906); butterflies while in Yverdon (Philippi, 1895: 144; Bernhard (Bernardo) Gotschlich (1877–1931), 1904: 322). However, Blancpain (1974: 81–82) Philippi’s last research assistant at the Mu- and Schell (2013: 113) revealed what Philippi seo (Gotschlich, 1904); and Carl-Christian had buried in his handwritten autobiography Ochsenius (1830–1906), a civil engineer and – the real reason that the brothers were sent geologist who emigrated on the same boat to Switzerland with their mother was because with Philippi from Hamburg to Chile (Ochse- their father had impregnated the family house- nius, 1906). Several shorter appreciations of keeper, which broke up the marriage, leading Philippi were published after his retirement to a separation. and before his death (Amunátegui, 1896; Philippi, his mother, and his brother then Anonymous, 1898; Ochsenius, 1889). In the returned to Berlin in 1822, where he [Rudolph] century subsequent to Philippi’s death, both studied at the Königliche Gymnasium zum the Chileans and the Germans have published Grauen Kloster (founded in 1574 and closed extensively on Philippi’s life, with an emphasis by the East Germans in 1958), equivalent to a on his exploration of Chile and his botanical high school. In 1826, Philippi began his stud- contributions. ies at the relatively new Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität Berlin (founded in 1810 as the Universität zu Berlin and now known as the R. A. PHILIPPI’S EARLY YEARS Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), where he graduated in 1830 at the age of 21 (Ochsenius, The origin of the Philippi family name is uncer- 1906: 17–18). Although his degree was nomi- tain. Although there are records of individuals nally in medicine and surgery, his coursework named “Philippi” in France in the 1600s–1700s, included botany, entomology, comparative LIFE AND WORK OF RUDOLPH AMANDUS PHILIPPI 3 anatomy, several courses in vertebrate zoolo- medicine in 1833, although he never practiced gy, and, perhaps most importantly for Philippi’s as a physician. future work, “Physische Geographie” (which in- Philippi initially had difficulties finding em- cluded biogeography), taught by Alexander von ployment in natural history, but in February Humboldt (1769–1859), who had extensively 1835, he was hired as a teacher
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