Alexander Becker (entomologist)

Alexander Becker

Alexander Becker ( Russian Александр Каспарович Беккер Alexander Kasparowitsch Becker ; born August 18, ^jul. / The thirtieth August  1818 ^greg. In Sarepta , † April 3 ^jul. / 16th April  1901 ^greg. ) Was a German-Russian organist, entomologist and botanist who worked in the Caucasus and Lower Volga region . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " AKBecker ".

Live and act

Alexander Becker's father came from Hessen-Darmstadt and his mother was born in the Palatinate . After stays in Saint Petersburg and Moscow , he began to work as a music teacher at the boys' school in Sarepta in 1837 , but gave up school service after four years due to poor health and has been an organist there ever since .

Becker dealt with natural history , especially entomology and botany , from an early age . From 1853 he published his observations about Sarepta regularly in the bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists . Later, he also reported from traveling to the Caucasus, in the Kazakh Steppe , to the Salt Lake Baskunchak and after Derbent , Mangishlak , Astrakhan , Turkmenbashi and Dagestan and encountered there flora and fauna. He earned his living by delivering herbaria and entomological collections to Russian and foreign museums; its material can still be found today in many government and private collections around the world.

He was a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, the Entomological Society of Szczecin and a corresponding member of the Russian Entomological Society .

Franz Stephani named Riccia beckeriana (= Riccia frostii Austin ), a type of star liver moss (Riccia) after him.

Works

• In the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou :
  • List of birds observed at Sarepta in the years 1849–1852 . Tome XXVI, No. 1, 1853, pp. 239–241 ( BHL )
  • A short report on some natural objects which particularly occupied my work in 1853 . Tome XXVII, No. 2, 1854, pp. 453-463 ( BHL )
  • Some natural history reports from 1854 . Tome XXVIII, No. 2, 1855, pp. 460–474 ( BHL )
  • Directory of most of the butterflies found in Sarepta's area . Tome XXVIII, No. 2, 1855, pp. 475-481 ( BHL )
  • Natural history report from the area around Sarepta from 1855 and some remarks on the killing and trapping of insects . Tome XXX, No. 1, 1857, pp. 250-272 ( BHL )
  • Directory of the wild plants around Sarepta . Tome XXXI, No. 1, 1858, pp. 1–85 ( BHL )
  • Natural history reports from the years 1856 and 1857; about the most important plants of the Sareptaër area for entomologists and a few more remarks about the trapping and killing of insects . Tome XXXI, No. 3, 1858, pp. 159-187 ( BHL )
  • List of the beetles around Sarepta . Tome XXXIV, No. 1, 1861, pp. 305-330 ( BHL )
  • Botanical and entomological communications . Tome XXXV, No. 4, 1862, pp. 332-355 ( BHL )
  • Natural history reports . Tome XXXVII, No. 2, 1864, pp. 477-493 ( BHL )
  • Communication of a botanical and entomological journey . Tome XXXVIII, No. 2, 1865, pp. 562-582 ( BHL )
  • Travel to the Kyrgyz Steppes, Astrakhan and the Caspian Sea . Tome XXXIX, No. 3, 1866, pp. 163–207 ( BHL )
  • Some more information about Astrakhan and Sareptaër plants and insects . Tome XL, No. 1, 1867, pp. 104–115 ( BHL )
  • Trip to the Caucasus . Tome XLI, No. 1, 1868, pp. 191-233 ( BHL )
  • Trip to Derbent . Tome XLII, No. 1, 1869, pp. 171–199 ( BHL )
  • Journey to Mangyschlak . Tome XLIII, No. 1, 1870, pp. 115–127 ( BHL )
  • Journey to the Baskuntschatskoje and Elton salt lakes, to Schilling, Anton, Astrakhan with reports on the occurrence of several beetles and flies in those areas . Tome XLV, No. 3, 1872, pp. 102–124 ( BHL )
  • Trip to Krasnovodsk and Dagestan . Tome LIII, No. 1, 1878, pp. 109–126 ( BHL )
  • Contribution to my lists of the plants and insects occurring around Sarepta and Bogdo, and description of a Mylabris larva . Tome LV, No. 1, 1880, pp. 145–156 ( BHL )
  • Journey to southern Daghestan . Tome LVI, No. 1, 1881, pp. 189–208 ( BHL )
  • The stone formations, the staphylinids and new plant discoveries at Sarepta . Tome LVII, No. 1, 1882, pp. 48–53 ( BHL )
  • Journey to Chanskaja Stafka and the great Bogdoberg . Tome LX, No. 1, 1884, pp. 167-177 ( BHL )
  • Journey to Akhal-Teke . Tome LXI, No. 1, 1885, pp. 189–199 ( BHL )
  • About Taraxum and Glycyrrhiza species and Alhagi gamelorum . Nouvelle série. Tome I, No. 1, 1887, pp. 222-226 ( BHL )
  • The spiders and continued reports of insects in Sarepta . Nouvelle série. Tome II, No. 1, 1888, pp. 373-379 ( BHL )
  • The Influences of Weather on Plants and Animals . Nouvelle série. Tome III, No. 4, 1889, pp. 623–628 ( BHL )
  • New discoveries of plants and insects in the area around Sarepta and a compilation of caterpillars and beetles, which only live on one plant species and two or three plant species, but which belong to one family . Nouvelle série. Tome VI, No. 1, 1892, pp. 62–70 ( BHL )
  • Some refutations of natural history statements; Descriptions and corrections of some insects, new beetle discoveries at Sarepta and botanical reports . Nouvelle série. Tome VIII, No. 2, 1894, pp. 277–283 ( BHL )
• numerous brief entomological reports in the insect market

literature

• Alexander Becker † . In: Insect Exchange . International weekly entomology journal. 18th year, No. 20. Leipzig May 16, 1901, p. 153 ( archive.org [accessed June 11, 2019]).
• Р. Вирен: Памяти А. Беккера . In: Русское энтомологическое обозреніе . tape 1 , 1901, p. 130-133 (Russian, archive.org [accessed June 11, 2019]).
• Бэккеръ, Александръ Каспаровнчъ . In: Труды Саратовской ученой архивной комиссіи . Вып 30. Саратов 1913, p. 290–292 (Russian, sgu.ru [PDF; accessed June 11, 2019]).
• Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Becker, Alexander (1818–1901) . In: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . 2nd edition, revision. Self-published, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 32-33 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author entry and list of the plant names described for Alexander Becker (entomologist) at the IPNI