Ladies in the Laboratory II by Creese Mary R.S.;Creese Thomas M.;

Author:Creese, Mary R.S.;Creese, Thomas M.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461605812
Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Even in her last years she was never idle. In addition to continuing her writing she occupied herself with the care and improvement of her Lindau parkland and the cultivation of rare trees. Princess Therese died at the Villa Amsee in Lindau on 19 September 1925, two months before her seventy-fifth birthday. Her rich and important collection of more than 2,000 anthropological and ethnological articles from native peoples of the Americas, initially held in private royal museums, is now in the Munich Volkerkundemuseum; other materials went to Bavarian state natural sciences collections. A tropical flowering shrub that she discovered was later named Macairea theresia (genus Melastoma).

HELENE VON SIEBOLD, BARONIN VON ULM ZU ERBACH (1848–1927),59 notable for her large contribution of fourteen pre-1900 papers on topics related to birds (see bibliography), was also of Bavarian ancestry. She was the second child and elder daughter among the five children of Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866) and his wife Helene von Gagern (1820–1877).

The von Siebolds had a long tradition of service in the field of medicine. Indeed the family played such a prominent role in medical education in Würzburg from about the middle of the eighteenth century that the University of Würzburg’s medical faculty was humorously referred to as “Academia Sieboldiana.”60 As a young physician in the service of the Dutch government,61 Philipp Franz von Siebold spent six years in Japan at the Dutch trading settlement near Nagasaki in the 1820s, a time when the islands were still virtually closed to the outside world. The studies he carried out and the natural history, art, and ethnological collections he assembled (coupled with those from a later stay) are renowned. Widely considered the most important European scientist to have visited Japan at that early period, von Siebold is said to have been the “scholar who almost single-handedly put Japanese studies on the European academic map.”62

Helene von Siebold was born on 27 September 1848 at Boppard, about ten miles south of Koblenz. The family home was a former Franciscan property, the monastery of St. Martin, that Philipp Franz von Siebold had partially rebuilt and developed, establishing an oriental garden in the grounds. Like her siblings, Helene was baptized into the evangelical faith. In 1853 the von Siebolds moved to Bonn, where they lived for eleven years before again moving, this time to Würzburg, Philipp Franz von Siebold’s birthplace. Helene received a good education; her later writings suggest that she had at least a working knowledge of several European languages and an acquaintance with the classics. A strikingly handsome young woman with long dark hair, she married Maximilian, Freiher von Ulm zu Erbach (1847–1929) in 1871. From then on her home was Schloss Erbach, an ancient mediaeval fortress with drawbridge and towers surrounded by hunting forests, a few miles southwest of Ulm in the upper Danube valley; the castle had been in the possession of her husband’s family for 500 years.

Much of Baroness Helene’s work concerned the preservation of the part of her father’s archives that came to her, a considerable undertaking in which she had the full collaboration of her husband.

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