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Authorised form of name	Raspe; Rudolf Eric (1737 - 1794)
Dates	1737 - 1794
Nationality	German
Place of birth	Hannover, Germany
Date of birth	1737
Place of death	Muckross, County Donegal, Ireland
Date of death	1794
Activity	Career: 'The council having received authentic information that Rudolph Erick Raspe, one of the Foreign Members, laterly Librarian to the Langraves of Hesse stands charged with divers frauds and gross breaches of trust as appears by undoubted documents exhibited to the Council and now ordered to be laid before the Society. The President and Council being fully convinced of the infamy of his character, are of opinion that it would be highly reproachful to the Society, that he should any longer continue a Member thereof and therefore do recommend to the Society that the said Rudolph Erick Raspe be ejected' Council Minutes Copy volume 16 p 290 Balloted and ejected (Journal Book Copy p 331)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	01/06/1769
Date of ejection or withdrawal	Ejected for 'divers frauds' (07 December 1775)
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB References: H S Torrens, 'The Father of Derbyshire Geology', review of Maxwell Craven, John Whitehurst of Derby: Clockmaker and Scientist 1713-88 in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 341-342
Royal Society code	NA3466

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
L&P/4/132	Letter, 'Dedicates his latest book to the Royal Society' from Rudolf Erich Raspe to George Parker	20 September 1763
L&P/5/94	Paper, 'Dissertatio epistolaris de ossibus et dentibus elephantum [Dissertation about the bones and teeth of elephants] by Rudolf Eric Raspe	1769
EC/1768/28	Raspe, Rudolf Eric: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/5/154	Paper, 'De modo marmoris albi producedi [On the white marble produced]' by Rudolph Erich Raspe	1770

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