Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Ulphilas, Herman

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Ulphilas, Herman

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Edition of 1889. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with EXTRA CAUTION. The subject is mentioned as leaving his collection to the Museum of Natural History at Berlin, but the museum was not founded until 1810, i.e. 49 years after the subject's date of death.

636021Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Ulphilas, Herman

ULPHILAS, Herman (ool-fee'-lahs), German naturalist, b. in Paderborn, Westphalia, in 1702; d. in Berlin in 1761. He followed the sea in the Dutch service, visited the Antilles, Guiana, South America, and Batavia, and held offices at Batavia, St. Eustatius, and Demerara. He made valuable collections in natural history, which he presented to the Museum of natural history at Berlin. Toward the close of his life he was editor of the “Magazin für Naturwissenschaft.” His works include “Historia naturalis Americana” (Leipsic, 1756) and “Abhandlung über die baumartigen Schotenpflanzen des Orinoco-Thales” (1757).