Burchard Alberti

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Burchard Alberti (born January 21, 1898 in Berlin-Steglitz , † July 5, 1988 ) was a German food chemist and lepidopterologist .

Life

Alberti spent his youth in Berlin. His father awakened his interest in butterflies at an early age , which he then collected as a high school student around Berlin and in the Giant Mountains . During the First World War he was thrown to the Balkans , where he gathered material for his first publication on the large butterflies of Macedonia . His scientific training at Berlin University took place in the difficult post-war years from 1919 to 1924. With an organic-chemical thesis, he was awarded a doctorate in 1925. phil. PhD. As a young chemist, he initially worked in industry and lived as a civil servant food chemist in Merseburg . He was called up again during World War II , but had the opportunity to do entomological work in southern Ukraine and the Don region .

After the Second World War, he first became an assistant from 1952 and then until his retirement as a research assistant with Erich Martin Hering at the Zoological Museum of the Humboldt University in Berlin . Here he concentrated on the thick-headed butterflies (Hesperiidae) and the rams (Zygaenidae), carried out pioneering work for these families and also considered phylogenetic aspects.

In 1972 he moved to Göttingen , where his sons lived. With many trips abroad, he continued to be very active entomologically into old age.

With the award of the Ritter von Spix Medal in 1986, the Munich State Zoological Collection honored Alberti's services to entomology .

Fonts (selection)

Alberti wrote many publications on entomological topics, including together with Josef Soffner on the butterfly fauna of southern and southeastern Russia . Further examples are:

  • On the tribal history and systematics of the Zygaenini (Lep. Zygaenidae) , Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 2, 1955, pp. 301–321
  • About distribution image and systematic evaluation of Carcharodus orientalis Rev. and altheae Hbn. (Lep. Hesperiidae) , Journal of the Vienna Entomological Society 49, 1964, pp. 99-103
  • A new Procris species from Persia (Lep. Zygaenidae) , Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft 57, 1967, pp. 99-101
  • About the Hesperia alveus Hbn. Group in the Caucasus region together with a description of a new species1) (Lep. Hesperiidae) , Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 14, 1967, pp. 461–471
  • Lepidoptera from the Mongolian People's Republic Results of the Mongolian-German Biological Expeditions since 1962 , Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 18, 1971, pp. 361–376
  • About the nature and information limits of the "Phylogenetic Systematics" by Henning, examined using the example of the Zygaenidae (Lepidoptera) , Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologische Gesellschaft 71, 1981, pp. 1–31
  • On the taxonomy of the Pyrgus alveus HB. Group (Lep. Hesperiidae) , Nota Lepidopterologica 7, 1984, pp. 2-6

Taxa named after Alberti

Some species of butterflies were named in honor of Alberti. This includes:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Burchard Alberti: Burchard Alberti Autobiography , Nota Lepidopterologica 6 (1), 1983, p. 3/4
  2. ↑ a b Clas M. Naumann: Dr. Burchard Alberti on his 90th birthday , Nota Lepidopterologica 11 (1), 1988, pp. 2-5
  3. ↑ Burchard Alberti & Josef Soffner: On the knowledge of the Lepidoptera fauna of South and Southeast Russia , communications from the Munich Entomological Society, 1962, pp. 146–198
personal data
SURNAME Alberti, Burchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist and food chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Steglitz
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1988