Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist.
He left his native Germany as a young man because he thought he was gravely ill and preferred to die in the mild climate of the Mediterranean region. He recovered and did considerable work there, including Abbildungen (illustrated monographs). Then he was invited to Chile by his brother Bernhard Eunom Philippi who worked for the government there. He moved to Santiago, Chile in 1851. There, he became a professor of botany and zoology and the director of the natural-history museum, and was a regular collaborator with Christian Ludwig Landbeck.
His grandson, Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados (1905-1969), was also a zoologist. In zoological nomenclature, the elder is referred to as "Philippi {Krumweide}" to distinguish him from his grandson "Philippi {Bañados}".
Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi in Valdivia is named after him.
Phil
(For Phil Ochs)
Words and Music by Tom Paxton
I opened the paper, there was your picture,
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.
I couldn't believe it, the paper was shakin',
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.
I know I'm gonna spend the rest of my lifetime
wondering why,
You found yourself so badly hurt you had to die.
I opened the paper, there was your picture,
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.
The phone started ringing, had I heard about it?
I shook every time I heard it ring.
What was my reaction? I put the phone down.
That was the only news that was fit to sing.
They ask about Dylan, about MacDougal Street and Third.
Question piled on question and each question more
absurd.
I opened the paper, there was your picture,
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.
Oh, I remember "There But For Fortune".
There but for fortune you and I would go.
Fortune turned its back on you,
Or so it must have seemed to you,
Christ alone knows what was the final blow.
The last time I saw you, the last time I saw you,
Bleeker Street outside the Other End.
I told you I'd see you. I got distracted.
I never saw your face again.
I heard that you were feeling stronger every day.
I heard that you were well, with good things on their
way.
Then I opened the paper, there was your picture,
Gone, gone, gone by your own hand.
[Repeat from "Oh I remember There but for Fortune" to