Arturo Issel

Arturo Issel.

Arturo Issel (April 11, 1842 - November 27, 1922)^[1] was an Italian geologist, palaeontologist, malacologist and archaeologist.^[2] He is noted for first defining the Tyrrhenian Stage in 1914.^[3] Issel was also renown at the time for his work on codifying information within Anthropology and Ethnology, for which he is still remembered.^[4][5]

Issel participated in several expeditions to East Africa, including that led by Orazio Antinori and Odoardo Beccari in 1870. He was appointed professor of Geology at the University of Genova in 1866. Issel was a close correspondent with anthropologist Elio Modigliani, and helped promulgate his ideas.^[4] Issel's son, Raffaele Issel, followed in his footsteps and was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Genova in 1923.^[6]

The Issel Bridge, an undersea ridge separating parts of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the Issel Seamount were named in Arturo Issel's honor.

In 1865 Professor Arturo Issel, an Italian geologist was searching for the presence of Neanderthal man in Malta. During one of his excursions in Wied Dalam, he came across a cave, half flled with soil and used as a cattle-pen. Issel thought that an excavation at the site could prove fruitful. He dug a trench in the cave’s loose soil and found human remains and a hippopotamus bone. Many followed Issel’s footsteps.

Bibliography

• Issel A. (1874). Molluschi Borneensi. Genova, Tipografia del R. Instituto Sordo-Muti.
• Issel A. (1869). Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche. Pisa, pp. I-XI, 1-387, Plates I-V.
• Giglioli E. H. & Issel A. (1884). Pelagos, saggi sulla vita e sui prodotti del mare. Genova, Tipografia del R. Istituto de' Sordo-Muti.

References

1. ^ Woodward, Arthur Smith (1923). "Arturo Issel". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 79: lvii. http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/cgi/reprint/79/1-4/i.  (Obituary)
2. ^ Deane, Sidney N. (1924) "Archaeological News" American Journal of Archaeology 28(3): pp. 327-355, p. 329
3. ^ Issel, Arturo (1914) "Lembi fossilferi quaternari e recenti nella Sardegna meridionale. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 5(23): pp. 759-770;
4. ^ ^{a b} Puccini, Sandra (1988) "Elio Modigliani: Esplorare, osservare, raccogliere nell'esperienza di un etnografo dell'Ottocento" La Ricerca Folklorica No. 18 (subtitled: A sud dell'occidente. Viaggi, missioni e colonie della vecchia Italia) pp. 25-40, pp. 27-28
5. ^ Ma le vere e proprie istruzioni per viaggiatori generici, co- me sappiamo, sono relativamente poche: nel caso italiano sa- rebbero da citare, in pratica, solo quelle notissime curate da Arturo Issel. (But the real guidelines for generic travellers, as we know, are relatively few: in the case of Italian, it behooves us to cite, practically, only those most famous ones derived from Arturo Issel.) Cerreti, Claudio (1995) "L'istruzione geografica dei viaggiatori" La Ricerca Folklorica No. 32 (subtitled:Alle origini della ricerca sul campo. Questionari, guide e istruzioni di viaggio dal XVIII al XX secolo) pp. 71-78, p. 73
6. ^ Cattell, J. McKeen (ed.) (1923) "University and Educational Notes" Science (New Series) 57(1470): p. 267 Stable URL at JSTOR

External links

• works by Arturo Issel at Internet Archive

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Name	Issel, Arturo
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Date of birth	April 11, 1842
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Date of death	November 27, 1922
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