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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Winchell</span></h1>
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<p><b>Alexander Winchell</b> (* <a href="31._Dezember" title="31. Dezember">31. Dezember</a> <a href="1824" title="1824">1824</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>; † <a href="1891" title="1891">1891</a>) war ein US-amerikanischer Geologe und Paläontologe.
</p><p>Winchell war lange Zeit Staatsgeologe von <a href="Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Picture_History_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Picture_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wisconsin_Images_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wisconsin_Images-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1855 bis 1873 war er Professor für <a href="Geologie" title="Geologie">Geologie</a>, <a href="Zoologie" title="Zoologie">Zoologie</a> und <a href="Botanik" title="Botanik">Botanik</a> an der <a href="University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wisconsin_Images_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wisconsin_Images-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Wie zahlreiche andere Intellektuelle bezog Winchell im letzten Drittel des Jahrhunderts Stellung gegen das allgemeine und gleiche Wahlrecht, da er die politische Ordnung durch Korruption gefährdet sah und den Einfluss des Geldes gegenüber dem der Bildung für zu groß hielt.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>1888 gründete er in <a href="Ithaca_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ithaca (New York)">Ithaca (New York)</a> zusammen mit <a href="James_Hall_(Pal%C3%A4ontologe)" title="James Hall (Paläontologe)">James Hall</a> und <a href="James_Dwight_Dana" title="James Dwight Dana">James Dwight Dana</a> die <a href="Geological_Society_of_America" title="Geological Society of America">Geological Society of America</a>.
</p><p>1891 war er <a href="Liste_der_Pr%C3%A4sidenten_der_Geological_Society_of_America" title="Liste der Präsidenten der Geological Society of America">Präsident</a> der Geological Society of America.
</p><p>Der <i>Mount Winchell</i> in den <a href="Palisades_(Sierra_Nevada)" title="Palisades (Sierra Nevada)">Palisades</a> der <a href="Sierra_Nevada_(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sierra Nevada (USA)">Sierra Nevada</a> ist nach ihm benannt.<sup id="cite_ref-Picture_History_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Picture_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/AlexxWin.html">Alexander Winchell (1824–1891)</a> (portugiesisch)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-Picture_History-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Picture_History_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Picture_History_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261891140">
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</style><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080519145828/http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/21634">Picture History: Alexander Winchell (1824–1891)</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 19. Mai 2008 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Wisconsin_Images-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Wisconsin_Images_2-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Wisconsin_Images_2-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=45215">Wisconsin Historical Images: Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121109203543/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Alexander+Winchell&offset=0">Probert Encyclopedia: Alexander Winchell</a> (<span class="webarchiv-memento"><a href="Webarchivierung#Begrifflichkeiten" title="Webarchivierung">Memento</a></span> vom 9. November 2012 im <i><a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></i>)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Winchell, Alexander: The North American Review, 136/315 (1883), S. 119–134; Beckert, Sven: "Democracy and its Discontents: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York" in Past and Present (February 2002), pp. 114–155 (2002).</span>
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