Rudolph Amandus Philippi
1808–1904
German botanist and geologist. Professor at the Cassel Technical College, 1835. Published on the Mollusca of Sicily in 1836. Left Germany for political reasons and settled in Chile in 1851. Professor of botany and zoology, University of Santiago, Chile, 1853.
Sources
DHC
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
DHC: Diccionario historico de Chile. By Jordi Fuentes and Lía Cortés. Santiago: Editorial del Pacifico, S.A. 1966.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.