Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados

Not to be confused with Rodolfo Amando Philippi.

Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados (25 May 1905 – 31 July 1969) was a Chilean ornithologist. The great-grandson of German naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904), he worked at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile as a curator of birds and wrote extensively on Chilean ornithology. By profession, he was a pediatrician.

Philippi was born in Santiago, Chile to physician Otto Philippi and trained in medicine like his father and became a paediatrician. He however took a keen interest in ornithology and was a curator of birds at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago from 1938 to 1966 and published some of the major works on the birds of the region.^[1][2]

References

1. Vuilleumier, Francois (1995). "Five great Neotropical Ornithologists: An appreciation of Eugene Eisenmann, Maria Koepke, Claës Olrog, Rodulfo Philippi, Helmut Sick" (PDF). Ornitologia Neotropical. 6: 97–111.
2. Johnson, Alfred W. (1970). "Obituaries" (PDF). Auk. 87 (4): 862–863.