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Angelo Heilprin was born on March 31, 1853, in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, the son of Michael Heilprin and Henrietta (Silver) Heilprin. He was brought to the United States by his parents in 1856.
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Angelo Heilprin was born on March 31, 1853, in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, the son of Michael Heilprin and Henrietta (Silver) Heilprin. He was brought to the United States by his parents in 1856.
Angelo received his first education in the schools of Brooklyn and Yonkers, New York. Since he displayed a fondness for science, he was encouraged to go to Europe in 1876, and at the Royal School of Mines (now the Normal School of Science), London, he studied biology under Huxley, geology under Judd, and paleontology under Etheridge. Subsequently he studied in Paris; in the University of Geneva, where he took up mineralogy; in Florence, and in Vienna. In the later city he attended lectures at the Imperial Geological Institute.
Returning to the United States in 1879, Angelo Heilprin was selected as a correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, the following year, and soon after was made professor of invertebrate paleontology in that institution. In 1883 he was elected curator in charge of the Academy, but resigned that position in 1892. He was selected as professor of geology in the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, in 1885, and three years later curator of the Institute’s museum. In 1904 he was elected lecturer at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, and he was the chief editor of Lippincott’s Pronouncing Gaselteer, in 1905.
It was as a traveler and explorer, however, that Heilprin was best known. In 1886 he explored the Florida peninsula and the Everglades. In 1888 he made his first visit to Mexico, and his investigations led to the conclusion that the Peak of Orizaba (18, 200 ft. ), by which name Citlalteptl is popularly known, was the highest summit of the North American continent, with the possible exception of Mount Logan. Prior to his explorations in Mexico, the volcanic peak of Popocatepetl was generally believed to be the summit of North America, but all these beliefs were dispelled by the scaling of Mount McKinley, Alaska, which reaches to the height of 20, 300 feet. In 1889 Heilprin made investigations of the physical history and zoology of the Bermuda Islands.
When Lieutenant Robert Peary made his first exploration of the Arctic in 1891, Heilprin headed the scientists accompanying him, representing the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the following year he led the expedition sent to relieve that explorer. He visited Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis in 1896, and Alaska and the Klondike in 1898, when the gold rush was beginning.
On May 8, 1902 , Mont Pelée, which had shown signs of activity for three days, suddenly burst forth “with a violence that surpasses description, ” and overwhelmed 40, 000 persons in the city of St. Pierre. A few days later Heilprin started on a steamer for Martinique. The eruption had not ceased when he arrived, and on May 20 the mountain was in violent convulsion again; but the Philadelphia scientist braved the danger and ascended its slopes.
His last expedition was a journey up the Orinoco River, British Guiana, in 1906.
He contracted a fever and the disease so undermined his health that he never recovered, although his death, which was due to heart disease, was unexpected. It occurred at the home of a sister in New York City.
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Heilprin was a founding member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia amd of the Alpine Club.