Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Thanks guys!
"mb1848", good work! So he was Irish!? And quite well-known. Not unusual that Irishmen is called "Anglais" (even if they themself dislike it). That Irish John Bell apparently died in combat, in Ethiopia, in 1860. Good, that rules out the US Mr. Bell (I got a bit worried there!).
And, James, so I thought ... I was only fishing for some maybe unknown source that might, could have taken us a bit further.
And, "nartreb", you´re perfectly right about "they". I interpreted it wrongly. It sure was Ferret & Galinier who took those routes. Our poor Rouget was indeed dead. He did pass away in 1841. (Now I feel safe
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The sad part is that this doesn´t get us any further. I´ve already searched all my usual resources for October 15 and 1841 … with no luck.
I think I have to settle with not knowing the full Life story of Monsieur Rouget … meaning an entry something like this:
● Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii GUÉRIN-MÉNEVILLE 1843 a k a "Abyssinian Crake" or "Abyssinian Rail
… commemorate the almost unknown French naturalist, collector ("envoyé par le Museum de Paris") and medical Doctor Jules Rouget (xxxx-1841), that died the 15th of October 1841 (in his early 40's) of dysentery, in (or nearby) the small town Enticho, Abyssinia (in today's northern Ethiopia).
That´s it!
I don´t think we can get much further. Compared to what we knew from the start we´ve managed to add his first name and his actual Death. Not that bad. I think this will do.
Thanks everybody for helping out!
Rouget … over and out!
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PS. It was apparently quite a man-fall of French Messieurs in Abyssinia at that time ... the artillery Officer Schœfner died three days later, and the two other French gentlemen mentioned, "Dillon" (i. e. Quartin-Dillon) and "Petit"*, participating in yet another French Abyssinian Expedition, crossing paths with their colleagues in the Ferret & Galinier Expedition, also became, as it was called, victims of Science. (More of them in a future thread). For Quartin-Dillon's and Petit's Abyssinian Expedition see link (here)
*Not to be confused with the French naturalist Louis Petit (1856-1943), that collected in Congo in the 1870's and 1880's.
"mb1848", good work! So he was Irish!? And quite well-known. Not unusual that Irishmen is called "Anglais" (even if they themself dislike it). That Irish John Bell apparently died in combat, in Ethiopia, in 1860. Good, that rules out the US Mr. Bell (I got a bit worried there!).
And, James, so I thought ... I was only fishing for some maybe unknown source that might, could have taken us a bit further.
And, "nartreb", you´re perfectly right about "they". I interpreted it wrongly. It sure was Ferret & Galinier who took those routes. Our poor Rouget was indeed dead. He did pass away in 1841. (Now I feel safe
)The sad part is that this doesn´t get us any further. I´ve already searched all my usual resources for October 15 and 1841 … with no luck.
I think I have to settle with not knowing the full Life story of Monsieur Rouget … meaning an entry something like this:
● Rouget's Rail Rougetius rougetii GUÉRIN-MÉNEVILLE 1843 a k a "Abyssinian Crake" or "Abyssinian Rail
… commemorate the almost unknown French naturalist, collector ("envoyé par le Museum de Paris") and medical Doctor Jules Rouget (xxxx-1841), that died the 15th of October 1841 (in his early 40's) of dysentery, in (or nearby) the small town Enticho, Abyssinia (in today's northern Ethiopia).
That´s it!
I don´t think we can get much further. Compared to what we knew from the start we´ve managed to add his first name and his actual Death. Not that bad. I think this will do.
Thanks everybody for helping out!
Rouget … over and out!
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PS. It was apparently quite a man-fall of French Messieurs in Abyssinia at that time ... the artillery Officer Schœfner died three days later, and the two other French gentlemen mentioned, "Dillon" (i. e. Quartin-Dillon) and "Petit"*, participating in yet another French Abyssinian Expedition, crossing paths with their colleagues in the Ferret & Galinier Expedition, also became, as it was called, victims of Science. (More of them in a future thread). For Quartin-Dillon's and Petit's Abyssinian Expedition see link (here)
*Not to be confused with the French naturalist Louis Petit (1856-1943), that collected in Congo in the 1870's and 1880's.
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