Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (known under the name of Eduard Rüppell ), is a Naturaliste and a German Explorateur , born the November 20th 1794 with Francfort-sur-le-Main and dead the December 10th 1884 in this same city.
Wire of a banking rich person, one first of all intends it for the businesses, but at the time of a visit to the the Sinai in 1817, it discovers the Natural history. It then follows courses of Botanique and Zoologie in the universities of Padoue and Genoa.
Rüppell goes for the first time in Africa in 1817 and goes up the the Nile until the falls of Aswan in high the Egypt.
It assembles its first great forwarding in 1821 and is assisted by the surgeon Michael Hey (1798-1832). They travel in the desert of the Sinai and are the first Europeans to be reached, in 1822, the gulf of Aqaba. They go then to Alexandria while crossing the Sinai mount. In 1823, they go up the the Nile until in Nubie, récolletant specimens in the area in the south of Ambukol and turn over to the Cairo in July 1825. They organize another forwarding through the Abyssinie, but the two explorers must give up following health issues. Its account of voyage appears in 1829 under the title: Beschreibung und Abbildung mehrerer neuer Fische, the im Nile .
Rüppell turns over in Europe in 1827. During its absence, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, starting from the specimens which are sent to him by Rüppell publishes part of Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika (1826).
During its second voyage, of 1830 with 1834, accompanied by the taxidermist Theodor Erckel (1811-1897), it crosses the Ethiopia of is in west and is the first naturalist to make a success of the crossing of Abyssinie. It brings back of them considerable collections, specimens of Natural history but also of ancient Ethiopian manuscripts. It carries out many cartographic statements of areas hitherto unknown.
On its return in Germany, it makes appear many books on its voyages and the observations that it made there, like Abbildungen zur Reise in Abyssinian in 1835 or Reise in Abyssinian of 1838.
He also studies the collections of animals which he reported. In 1845, it makes appear a book on the taxonomy of the birds of Africa of the North-West, Systematische Übersicht der Vögel North-Ost-Afrika' S , where it describes 532 species. But also of work the Reptile S, the Amphibian S and in particular the Poisson S ( Fische of the rothen Meeres , 1828, republication in 1835). Its collections are used as a basis for the Muséum Senckenberg of Frankfurt.
Several species was dedicated to him of which the Fauvette of Rüppell ( Sylvia rueppelli ) and the Vautour of Rüppell ( Gyps rueppellii ).