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Emil August Goeldi |
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b. Ennetbühl, Switzerland, 28 August 1859; d. Zurich,
Switzerland, 5 July 1917
He was a student of Ernst Haeckel at the University of Jena. After receiving invitations to teach in Chile, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, he opted for the latter, arriving in Brazil 1880. For a short period worked at the Museu Nacional and later reorganized the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, founded in 1866, the institution that today bears his name: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Well known for his studies of Brazilian birds and mammals.
Involvement in Hypogean Fish Research
Described the Phreatic fish Phreatobius cisternarum (Goeldi 1905). The date of publication is usually cited as 1904, year in which Goeldi presented the paper describing this species before the Sixth International Congress of Zoology at Berne. However, the proceedings of that meeting were not published until 1905 and, according to article 21.1 of the International Code of Scientific Nomenclature it is the date of publication that must be taken in consideration. Returned to Switzerland in 1907 to teach biology and physical geography at the University of Bern (Studer 1917). |
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