Баккал Сергей Николаевич
Зоологический институт РАН, Санкт-Петербург, Россия
DOI: 10.24411/2076-8176-2017-11939
Статья знакомит с историей поступления разнообразных зоологических предметов из Египта в Зоологический музей Императорской академии наук в 1839-1848 гг. Установлено, что нынешний Зоологический институт РАН хранит ценные коллекции животных, присланных А.Б. Клот-Беем (1793-1868) известным французским врачом-эпидемиологом, коллекционером египетских древностей, автором энциклопедического издания о Египте и целого ряда научно-просветительских статей, а также членом-корреспондентом Императорской Академии наук в Санкт-Петербурге.
Ключевые слова: Зоологический музей Императорской Академии наук, А.Б. Клот-Бей, Кабинет естественной истории в Каире, сборы в Египте.
Doctor Clot-Bey (1793-1868) and His Contribution to the Collections of the Zoological Museum, Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg
Sergey N. Bakkal
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
DOI: 10.24411/2076-8176-2017-11939
Frenchman Antoine Barthélémy Clot (1793-1868) was undoubtedly the most prominent figure among practicing physicians in the first half of the 19th century. His activity during a nearly eighteen-year stay in Egypt had a significant impact on a military medicine service as well as on a public health service. Antoine Clot was also the author of Aperçu général sur I’Égypte (1840). In 1830, he was elected as a honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, and in 1842, its Corresponding Member. This article introduces the history of Egyptian zoological collections sent to St. Petersburg by doctor A.B. Clot, better known as Clot-Bey, for the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences during the 1830s-1840s. Until recently, that fact remained one of the least known of all the sphere of Clot-Bey’s actions. At the beginning it was connected with the Clot-Bey’s founding of a medical school at Abou-zabel, which was located just outside of Cairo. This medical school had trained over 150 physicians. The Natural History Cabinet was created for students in medical school around the 1837. Apparently, this event initiated Clot-Bey’s professional contacts with the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and other European academic institutions ( in England, France, Italy, Germany etc. ). At present time, due to author’s purposeful search, the «Clot-Bey’s collection» in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences includes no less than 300 copies of articles. The 150th anniversary of his death will fall in 2018.
Key words: Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, A.B. Clot-Bey, Egyptian zoological collections, Natural History Cabinet (medical school at Cairo).