IDEAN   23403
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS ANDINOS "DON PABLO GROEBER"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Tadeo Haenke: Primer naturalista del Virreinato del Río de la Plata.
Autor/es:
VICTOR A. RAMOS; RICARDO ALONSO
Revista:
Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de Buenos Aires
Editorial:
ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS FÍSICAS Y NATURALES
Referencias:
Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2019 vol. 70 p. 117 - 148
ISSN:
0365-1185
Resumen:
Tadeo Haenke: First naturalist of the Viceroyalty of the Río de La Plata. In this work we present the important observations made in the Viceroyalty of the Rio de La Plata by Thaddaeus Peregrinus Xaverius Haenke, naturalist of the Malaspina Expedition who settled in these lands after several years of traveling the world in the last years of the XVIII century. While there is a profuse literature on this naturalist, which highlights different aspects of their contributions, there was no evaluation from the field of geology. In those times the Natural History, included a wide and extensive series of disciplines, today independent, and within which Mineralogy was. Therefore, his observations within this discipline covered a broad field of Earth Sciences in its current concept. In order to understand his contributions, a brief review of his academic background will be made, of the concerns that were discussed in the academies where he studied, and of his hazardous life as a naturalist. His contributions have a strong link with Buenos Aires, to a greater extent because it was the seat of the viceroyalty, where they were made known in numerous articles published in the Telégrafo Mercantil, the first newspaper of Buenos Aires. The analysis of these contributions and subsequent ones highlights the solid academic training of Haenke, his spirit of explorer, and the justice of those who considered him an ancestor of Alexander von Humboldt in these lands. The final objective is to value his accurate observations and rescue his memory, which has transcended scarcely in the field of geology.