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Angelo Heilprin (March 31, 1853 – July 17, 1907) was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and explorer. He is mostly known for the part he took into the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 and for his observations and photographs of the 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée in Martinique. He also was a mountaineer and a painter. == Biography == Angelo Heilprin was born at Sátoraljaújhely, in the Zemplén County of the Kingdom of Hungary. He arrived in the United States from the Austrian Empire with his father Michael and his brother Louis in 1856.〔Angelo was three and Louis five. The unsuccessful Hungarian Revolution and Independence War of 1848 played a role in the move. Phineas Mendel, Angelo's grandfather, a Poland-born Talmudist, had had sympathy for the revolutionaries and his father, also born in Poland, had been a government employee under Lajos Kossuth. Michael Heilprin was to be a contributor to the ''American Cyclopædia'' and Phineas Mendel joined the family in 1859. Appletons. Pollak is a source for Michael's and Louis' biographies.〕 He went back to Europe in 1876 for two years to complete his education. He studied at the Royal School of Mines, London,〔"()he best man in my class" wrote Thomas Henry Huxley to 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 )〕 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.〔Pollak, (page 238 )〕 He then became professor of invertebrate paleontology and of geology at the 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. Also a painter, Heilprin exhibited ''Autumn's First Whisper'' at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1880, and ''Forest Exiles'' at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1883. In 1902 he was one of the founding members of the American Alpine Club.〔http://www.americanalpineclub.org/p/heilprin-citation〕 In 1904, he was given a chair at Yale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angelo Heilprin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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