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naturalist physician Zoologist
John Edwards Holbrook was born on December 30, 1796 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. He was the son of Silas and Mary (Edwards) Holbrook. Beaufort was the home of his mother's family, but he was soon taken by his parents to the Holbrook family home at Wrentham, Massachussets.
In Wrentham Holbrook received his early education, being prepared for Brown University, where he graduated in 1815. Selecting medicine for a profession, he went to Philadelphia and in 1818 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. The next four years he spent in travel and graduate study in Europe, largely in Edinburgh and Paris.
In Paris Holbrook became attracted to the great museum in the Jardin des Plantes and there established lifelong friendships with several eminent French zo(tm)logists, especially Valenciennes, Duméril, and Bibron. Since the chief interest of this group was the study of reptiles, Holbrook was naturally drawn to investigations of the same class, and when he returned to America in 1822, he made the reptiles of this country the object of his zoological studies.
He settled at Charleston, South Carolina, and entered upon his career as a physician. Two years later, he cooperated with some of the leading doctors of the city in establishing the Medical College of South Carolina and was himself chosen to be the professor of anatomy, a position which he held for over thirty years. He was soon recognized as a lecturer and teacher of very unusual talent, and he inspired his students with profound respect for their chosen profession. As a practicing physician, too, he rapidly gained great popularity, but his tenderness of heart and distaste for seeing suffering led him to refuse all cases of childbirth and surgical cases involving serious operations.
Soon after his settlement at Charleston, Holbrook determined to undertake the work of preparing a monograph on the reptiles and batrachians of the United States, a purpose in which he was encouraged by his French correspondents. Having adequate financial means, he engaged an Italian artist, J. Sera, to make colored figures from living specimens of all the American reptiles he could procure. These handsome plates with the necessary text were bound in the order in which they were completed; the first volume, with the title North American Herpetology, was issued in 1836 and two more in 1838. Realizing the inconvenient and unscientific nature of such a method of publication, Holbrook changed his plans, and in 1842, five quarto volumes appeared under the same title, with both plates and text arranged in a systematic sequence. The completed work comprised 147 plates.
Turning from his work on reptiles, which he considered finished, he planned a somewhat similar monograph on the fishes of the Southern states, but owing to the death of his artist and the difficulty of getting living specimens from which to make the illustrations, he finally decided to confine his work to the fishes of South Carolina. One volume, Ichthyology of South Carolina, containing twenty-seven colored plates, was issued in 1855 and a revised edition of the same volume appeared in 1860.
The outbreak of the Civil War put an end to Holbrook's scientific activities. All of his publications are rare and many of the volumes issued are incomplete. During the war he served as a medical officer in the Confederate army, acting as head of the examining board of surgeons in South Carolina.
Most of his fortune was gone and his books and collections were lost or destroyed. Discouraged by his misfortunes and recognizing that a new order was coming in, he ceased to undertake or to plan for scientific work. He renewed his custom of spending his summers in Massachusetts, where he had many relatives and friends, and there, at his sister's house in Norfolk--formerly North Wrentham--he died of apoplexy.
Although Holbrook was among the most respected medical men of South Carolina, it was in herpetology that he enjoyed an international reputation, secured by the publication of North American Herpetology, at the time the most accurate and comprehensive descriptive work on the American reptiles published during the nineteenth century. It received notable recognition in Europe, where Holbrook was regarded as the leading American zoologist of his day.
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Holbrook was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1868.
In matters outside his profession, Holbrook is reported to have been "a careless man who never took care of anything, " but he was universally liked and trusted.
In 1863 Holbrook's wife, Harriott Pinckney Rutledge, whom he had married in May 1827, died at Columbia, South Carolina. Since there were no children, Holbrook was left quite alone.
