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Paul Sarasin

December 15, 2023

Paul Sarasin, full name Paul Benedict Sarasin (11 December 1856 – 7 April 1929)[1] was a Swiss naturalist and ethnologist.[2] He is known as founder of National parks in Switzerland.[1]

Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin during their expedition to Celebes.

Life and work edit

 
In Celebes the Sarasins explored the geographical distribution of certain molluscs to support their theory of a gradual change between regions. Illustration from one of their books.

Paul Sarasin studied medicine and natural science at the University of Basel with Leopold Ruetimeyer, where he also met Fritz Sarasin, and at the University of Würzburg. His dissertation had the title "Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bithynia tentaculata" and was about the developmental history of a small aquatic snail.[3]

Paul Sarasin was a second cousin of Fritz Sarasin.[4] Paul and Fritz did not only work and travel together for scientific purposes but also had a close livelong friendship.[5] Both had their origins in the rich and powerful patrician families (Patriziat), which ruled their native city of Basel at this time.[6]

The Sarasins conducted research in various fields within the natural sciences, and they amassed a collection of zoological and geological objects (like Molluscs). They later developed interests both in anthropology and ethnology; they photographed and interviewed people, noted measurements of the human body, recorded their language, and collected works of art.

Paul and Fritz Sarasin made several scientific expeditions to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Celebes (now Sulawesi). After their first journey to Ceylon 1883-1886 they stayed 1886-1893 in Berlin for evaluation and publication of results. 1890, 1902 and 1907 they travelled again to Ceylon and 1893-1896 to Celebes. After staying from 1896-1902 in Basel they went from 1902-1903 a second time to Celebes.[7]

In Celebes they tried to solve an open scientific question related to the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, about a detail concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals called the Wallace Line, that is whether Celebes belonged in this regard more to Asia or to Australia.[8] A network of scientists publishing in English, German, French and Dutch competed for a solution to this problem.[9] Instead of a sharp line the Sarasins proposed a zone of gradual change and asked for research about the kind of connections of land which would explain the existing populations.[10]

In the context of the question of the origin and evolution of man Wallace had proposed a second line, hence called Wallace's other line east of the first line, separating two distinct groups of men: the Malay people in the West and the Papuan people in the East. To clarify this problem the Sarasins explored different groups and tribes in Ceylon and Celebes, which they saw as varieties of men created differently by evolution and at different stages of biological and cultural development.[11] In Ceylon they visited and studied intensively a tribe called Weddas which they considered to be the oldest and original population of Ceylon, living mostly as hunters in the mountains and inner parts of Ceylon. They compared them to other groups in Ceylon, the Tamils and the Sinhalese. Later the Sarasins found a group of people in Celebes, in their opinion similar to the Weddas, the Toala and Toraja.[12]

For their research the Sarasins crossed Celebes seven times on different routes. Since the island was at this time only loosely controlled by the colonial administration of the Netherlands, they had to travel through mostly unknown areas of the nearly independent kingdoms of Luwu, Sidenreng and Bone. These kingdoms belonged to the cultural groups named Bugis or Makassars. Hierarchically structured, each with a king on top, elected by noble families, and an associated parliament of lower nobles, they competed for power and resources, like slaves, to produce coffee and spices, which they sold to the world-market. Lower groups of the Bugis and tribes from the inner mountainous parts of Celebes, like the Toraja, lived in a kind of slavery. According to the scientist B.C.Schär, the research of the Sarasin later led to the inclusion of these areas into the Dutch colonial imperium.[13]

When Fritz Sarasin travelled 1910 - 1911 to the islands of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, he met there with another ethnologist from Basel Felix Speiser, who at this time did research on the New Hebrides.

Paul and Fritz could finance their research from their own, mostly inherited, wealth.[14]

From 1906-1912, Paul Sarasin was President of the commission for the Ethnological Museum of Basel. Paul and Fritz donated their rich collections to the Ethnological Museum.[7] Alone from Celebes they brought back to Basel 1000 animals and plants, as well as 680 ethnographic objects and 600 photos.[15] Along with Hermann Fischer-Sigwart, Jakob Heierli, Albert Heim, Hans Schardt, Carl Schroter, Ernest Wiczek, and Friedrich Zschokke, they were the founders of the Schweizerische Naturschutzkommission (the Swiss Nature Conservation Commission).[16]

At the age of 62, Paul married in 1918 Anna Maria Hohenester and had two children with her.[7]

Taxa named in his honor edit

Paul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles:

And fish:


The standard author abbreviation P.Sarasin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[19]

Bibliography edit

  • (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898–1901). "Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes". Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden.
    • (1898). Band 1: Die Süsswasser-Mollusken von Celebes.
    • (1899). Band 2: Die Land-Mollusken von Celebes. I-VIII, 1-248, pls 1-31.
    • (1901). Band 3: Über die geologische Geschichte der Insel Celebes auf Grund der Thierverbreitung
    • (1901). Band 4: Entwurf einer geographisch-geologischen Beschreibung der Insel Celebes / Untersuchung einiger Gesteinssuiten, gesammelt in Celebes von Paul & Fritz Sarasin; von C. Schmidt.
  • (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1905). Reisen in Celebes. Wiesbaden. Volume 1, Volume 2.
  • (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. "Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftlicher Forschungen auf Ceylon". ["Results of Natural History Research in Ceylon."] Wiesbaden.
    • (1887–1893). Band 1–3.
    • (1908). "Band 4: Die Steinzeit auf Ceylon". [Volume Four: The Stone Age of Ceylon.] : .

Further reading edit

  • Heinz Balmer: Sarasin, Paul in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  • Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878.
  • Eduard His: Basler Gelehrte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Benno Schwabe & Co., Basel 1941, S. 364 - 372.

References edit

  1. ^ a b (in German) Bibliography of Paul Sarasin. ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, accessed 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50287-8, p. 223f.
  3. ^ Eduard His: Basler Gelehrte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Benno Schwabe & Co., Basel 1941, S. 364 - 365.
  4. ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
  5. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, S. 42 - 61
  6. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, S. 43
  7. ^ a b c Heinz Balmer: Sarasin, Paul in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  8. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, S. 195 ff.
  9. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, S. 204 ff.
  10. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, p. 214.
  11. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, p. 231ff, 278ff.
  12. ^ Eduard His: Basler Gelehrte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Benno Schwabe & Co., Basel 1941, S. 367 - 369.
  13. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, p. 127ff.
  14. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, p. 225.
  15. ^ Bernhard C. Schär: Tropenliebe. Schweizer Naturforscher und niederländischer Imperialismus in Südostasien um 1900. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3593502878, p. 8.
  16. ^ Kupper, Patrick (2014). Creating Wilderness: A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park. Berghahn Books. p. 64.
  17. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Sarasin", p. 233).
  18. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  19. ^ International Plant Names Index.  P.Sarasin.

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Paul Sarasin full name Paul Benedict Sarasin 11 December 1856 7 April 1929 1 was a Swiss naturalist and ethnologist 2 He is known as founder of National parks in Switzerland 1 Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin during their expedition to Celebes Contents 1 Life and work 2 Taxa named in his honor 3 Bibliography 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External linksLife and work edit nbsp In Celebes the Sarasins explored the geographical distribution of certain molluscs to support their theory of a gradual change between regions Illustration from one of their books Paul Sarasin studied medicine and natural science at the University of Basel with Leopold Ruetimeyer where he also met Fritz Sarasin and at the University of Wurzburg His dissertation had the title Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Bithynia tentaculata and was about the developmental history of a small aquatic snail 3 Paul Sarasin was a second cousin of Fritz Sarasin 4 Paul and Fritz did not only work and travel together for scientific purposes but also had a close livelong friendship 5 Both had their origins in the rich and powerful patrician families Patriziat which ruled their native city of Basel at this time 6 The Sarasins conducted research in various fields within the natural sciences and they amassed a collection of zoological and geological objects like Molluscs They later developed interests both in anthropology and ethnology they photographed and interviewed people noted measurements of the human body recorded their language and collected works of art Paul and Fritz Sarasin made several scientific expeditions to Ceylon now Sri Lanka and Celebes now Sulawesi After their first journey to Ceylon 1883 1886 they stayed 1886 1893 in Berlin for evaluation and publication of results 1890 1902 and 1907 they travelled again to Ceylon and 1893 1896 to Celebes After staying from 1896 1902 in Basel they went from 1902 1903 a second time to Celebes 7 In Celebes they tried to solve an open scientific question related to the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace about a detail concerned with the geographical distribution of plants and animals called the Wallace Line that is whether Celebes belonged in this regard more to Asia or to Australia 8 A network of scientists publishing in English German French and Dutch competed for a solution to this problem 9 Instead of a sharp line the Sarasins proposed a zone of gradual change and asked for research about the kind of connections of land which would explain the existing populations 10 In the context of the question of the origin and evolution of man Wallace had proposed a second line hence called Wallace s other line east of the first line separating two distinct groups of men the Malay people in the West and the Papuan people in the East To clarify this problem the Sarasins explored different groups and tribes in Ceylon and Celebes which they saw as varieties of men created differently by evolution and at different stages of biological and cultural development 11 In Ceylon they visited and studied intensively a tribe called Weddas which they considered to be the oldest and original population of Ceylon living mostly as hunters in the mountains and inner parts of Ceylon They compared them to other groups in Ceylon the Tamils and the Sinhalese Later the Sarasins found a group of people in Celebes in their opinion similar to the Weddas the Toala and Toraja 12 For their research the Sarasins crossed Celebes seven times on different routes Since the island was at this time only loosely controlled by the colonial administration of the Netherlands they had to travel through mostly unknown areas of the nearly independent kingdoms of Luwu Sidenreng and Bone These kingdoms belonged to the cultural groups named Bugis or Makassars Hierarchically structured each with a king on top elected by noble families and an associated parliament of lower nobles they competed for power and resources like slaves to produce coffee and spices which they sold to the world market Lower groups of the Bugis and tribes from the inner mountainous parts of Celebes like the Toraja lived in a kind of slavery According to the scientist B C Schar the research of the Sarasin later led to the inclusion of these areas into the Dutch colonial imperium 13 When Fritz Sarasin travelled 1910 1911 to the islands of New Caledonia in the South Pacific he met there with another ethnologist from Basel Felix Speiser who at this time did research on the New Hebrides Paul and Fritz could finance their research from their own mostly inherited wealth 14 From 1906 1912 Paul Sarasin was President of the commission for the Ethnological Museum of Basel Paul and Fritz donated their rich collections to the Ethnological Museum 7 Alone from Celebes they brought back to Basel 1000 animals and plants as well as 680 ethnographic objects and 600 photos 15 Along with Hermann Fischer Sigwart Jakob Heierli Albert Heim Hans Schardt Carl Schroter Ernest Wiczek and Friedrich Zschokke they were the founders of the Schweizerische Naturschutzkommission the Swiss Nature Conservation Commission 16 At the age of 62 Paul married in 1918 Anna Maria Hohenester and had two children with her 7 Taxa named in his honor editPaul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles Amphiesma sarasinorum Correlophus sarasinorum Nessia sarasinorum Pseudorabdion sarasinorum and Sphenomorphus sarasinorum 17 And fish Sarasin s goby Mugilogobius sarasinorum is named in the cousins honor 18 The standard author abbreviation P Sarasin is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 19 Bibliography edit in German Sarasin P amp Sarasin F 1898 1901 Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes Kreidel s Verlag Wiesbaden 1898 Band 1 Die Susswasser Mollusken von Celebes 1899 Band 2 Die Land Mollusken von Celebes I VIII 1 248 pls 1 31 1901 Band 3 Uber die geologische Geschichte der Insel Celebes auf Grund der Thierverbreitung 1901 Band 4 Entwurf einer geographisch geologischen Beschreibung der Insel Celebes Untersuchung einiger Gesteinssuiten gesammelt in Celebes von Paul amp Fritz Sarasin von C Schmidt in German Sarasin P amp Sarasin F 1905 Reisen in Celebes Wiesbaden Volume 1 Volume 2 in German Sarasin P amp Sarasin F Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftlicher Forschungen auf Ceylon Results of Natural History Research in Ceylon Wiesbaden 1887 1893 Band 1 3 1908 Band 4 Die Steinzeit auf Ceylon Volume Four The Stone Age of Ceylon translated by David Bulbeck English translation PDF Further reading editHeinz Balmer Sarasin Paul in German French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 Eduard His Basler Gelehrte des 19 Jahrhunderts Benno Schwabe amp Co Basel 1941 S 364 372 References edit a b in German Bibliography of Paul Sarasin ETH Bibliothek Zurich accessed 9 August 2010 Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3 593 50287 8 p 223f Eduard His Basler Gelehrte des 19 Jahrhunderts Benno Schwabe amp Co Basel 1941 S 364 365 Coan E V Kabat A R amp Petit R E 15 February 2009 2 400 years of malacology 6th ed Archived 2018 10 05 at the Wayback Machine 830 pp 32 pp Annex of Collations American Malacological Society Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 S 42 61 Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 S 43 a b c Heinz Balmer Sarasin Paul in German French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 S 195 ff Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 S 204 ff Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 p 214 Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 p 231ff 278ff Eduard His Basler Gelehrte des 19 Jahrhunderts Benno Schwabe amp Co Basel 1941 S 367 369 Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 p 127ff Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 p 225 Bernhard C Schar Tropenliebe Schweizer Naturforscher und niederlandischer Imperialismus in Sudostasien um 1900 Campus Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978 3593502878 p 8 Kupper Patrick 2014 Creating Wilderness A Transnational History of the Swiss National Park Berghahn Books p 64 Beolens Bo Watkins Michael Grayson Michael 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press xiii 296 pp ISBN 978 1 4214 0135 5 Sarasin p 233 Christopher Scharpf amp Kenneth J Lazara 22 September 2018 Order GOBIIFORMES Family OXUDERCIDAE a o The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J Lazara Retrieved 15 March 2022 International Plant Names Index P Sarasin External links edit in German works by Paul Sarasin in the catalog of the German National Library in German Paul Sarasin in the Historical 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