Emil August Goeldi
| Émil August Goeldi | |
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| Born | August 28, 1859 Ennetbühl, Upper Toggenburg District, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland |
| Died |
July 5, 1917 (aged 57) Bern, Switzerland |
| Citizenship | Swiss and Brazilian |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Fields | Zoology, Archaeology, Public health |
| Institutions | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil |
| Alma mater |
Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena Universität Leipzig, Germany |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel |
| Other academic advisors | Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolph Leuckart |
| Known for | Reorganizer of Goeldi Museum |
| Influences | Ernst Haeckel |
| Influenced | Emilie Snethlage |
| Notable awards | Life-Director of museum renamed for him |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Goeldi |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Goeldi |
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Goeldi's legacy is the still-functioning Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
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Émil August Goeldi (var. Göldi, var. Emílio Augusto Goeldi) (August 28, 1859 – July 5, 1917 in Bern), was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist. He was the father of Oswaldo Goeldi, a noted Brazilian engraver and illustrator.
Goeldi studied zoology in Jena, Germany with Ernst Haeckel, and in 1884 he was invited by Ladislau de Souza Mello Netto, the influential director of the Brazilian "Museu Imperial e Nacional," to work at that institution. Goeldi arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1885 to work in the National Museum (now the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. In May 1890, he was fired, due to political circumstances related to the proclamation of the Republic and the exile of his principal benefactor, Emperor D. Pedro II.
He was then invited by the governor of the state of Pará, Lauro Sodré, to reorganize the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, in Belém, which had been founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna. He arrived on 9 June 1894 in Belém. In his pioneering work, Goeldi was helped by several other foreign researchers, such as the Swiss botanist Jacques Huber (1867–1914), zoologist Emilie Snethlage (1868–1929), geologists Friedrich Katzer (1861–1925), and Alexander Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau (1867–1900), and Adolpho Ducke (1876–1959), entomologist, ethnographer and botanist.
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