Carl Gustav Calwer

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Carl Gustav Calwer (born November 11, 1821 in Stuttgart , † August 19, 1874 in Stuttgart-Berg ) was a German forester , entomologist and ornithologist .

Book cover of the third edition of the Beetle Book

Life

Calwer's father was a court chimney sweep . Carl Gustav Calwer attended a grammar school and then a trade school. After studying forest science with a doctorate, he first completed an internship in Schondorf am Ammersee in 1847 and then worked as a forest assistant in Neuenbürg near Pforzheim , Neuenstadt am Kocher near Heilbronn and Ellwangen (Jagst) . In 1871 he was a district forester in the Sulz am Neckar forestry office near Rottweil .

Services

Ornithology

For example, he published an article on the ornithology of Württemberg in 1847 with the title About the sociable breeding grounds of native birds , and in 1853 on the first specific case of Otis tetrax in Württemberg . With the hope of contributing to a complete German ornithological idioticon , he published a list of popular bird names in Württemberg in 1853.

Tritoma bipustulata ( red-spotted rottenwood beetle ) in the beetle book. General and special natural history of the beetle. Along with instructions to collect and store them.

entomology

Of his Käferbuch, which appeared for the first time in 1858, there were six updated editions by 1916. The first edition was created in collaboration with the zoologist and physician Gustav Jäger , who also oversaw the subsequent editions after Calwer's death in 1874. The more than 1000 beetle drawings from the book, which were commissioned by Emil Hochdanz (* 1816; † 1885) in Stuttgart at the Artistic Institute, are still in use today.

Publications

  • Agricultural and technical botany. 3 volumes. Published by Krais & Hoffmann, Stuttgart.
Volume 1: Germany's field and garden plants. 1852.
Volume 2: Germany's fruit and berry fruits. 1854. (New edition: Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-937-6 .)
Volume 3: Germany's technical plants. 1854.
  • Württemberg's wood and shrub species with a special relationship to their locations. Zu Guttenberg, 1853.
  • Carl Gustav Calwer, GM Kirn (drawings): The animal world of Germany and Switzerland. 2 volumes. 1854.
  • Beetle book. General and special natural history of the beetle. Along with instructions to collect and store them. Published by Krais & Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1858.
  • Calwer's Käferbuch: Introduction to d. Knowledge d. Beetle of Europe. 2 volumes. Swiss beard , Stuttgart 1916, DNB 989454991 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Gustav Calwer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entomological sheets for the biology and systematics of beetles. Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, Goecke & Evers, 1933.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Gebhardt (editor): Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 61, ISBN 3-89104-680-4 . From the reprint of Volume 1 from 1964, source there: Personal documents in the main state archive in Stuttgart.
  3. ^ Reprint of the 1876 edition
personal data
SURNAME Calwer, Carl Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calwer, KG; Calwer, CG; Calwer, CG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester, entomologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1874
Place of death Stuttgart mountain