Carl Muhl

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Carl Mühl (born January 11, 1869 in Breitnau ; † March 23, 1955 ) was a German entomologist .

Life

Carl Mühl came from a family that had been a teacher since 1634. He attended grammar school in Ettenheim , but was unable to complete the teachers' seminar , as this could only be made possible for the oldest of the four children after the early death of his father. Instead, Carl Mühl started a training position with his uncle Ludwig Mühl, who worked as a notary in Baden-Baden . This training was broken off prematurely and Mühl completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser instead . After his apprenticeship, he settled in Stuttgart , where he acquired the Württemberg citizenship and started a family. Self-taught, he acquired knowledge of entomology. His excursions took him to the forests of Stuttgart.

Carl Mühl published the specialist books caterpillars and butterflies (1908) and larvae and beetles (1909) in Verlag Strecker & Schröder . Around 1900 Carl Mühl lived at Kasernenstrasse 20 in Stuttgart, later at Seidenstrasse 14 and then at Schwabstrasse 199. Although he was not a hairdresser out of passion, he patented a beard wax container with a screw-in plunger in 1903 .

After his wife fell victim to a flu epidemic towards the end of the First World War and his sons had grown up, Carl Mühl gave up his hairdressing business and earned his living as a taxidermist . His customers included the Kosmos publishing house and schools. Mühl, who was a member of the Stuttgart Entomological Association , exhibited his pest biology on the Killesberg in 1939 .

During the Second World War , despite his advanced age, he stayed in his apartment on Schwabstrasse in Stuttgart. When the Liederhalle burned down as a result of the bombing on October 8, 1943, the 75-year-old managed to save the scientific books of the Entomological Association from the club room there. However, a part of the library was later destroyed in the Stuttgart natural history collection as a result of the war.

The University's Zoological and Veterinary Museum is located on the top floor of Hohenheim Palace

Around 150 insect biologies by Carl Mühl's hand are now in the Zoological Museum of the University of Hohenheim . Many of them deal with agricultural or forestry insect pests. Mühl's insect biologies are considered to be a masterly handcrafted compilation of the life images of insects in their larval and pupation stages and illustrate the damage that can be caused by these animals.

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Individual evidence

  1. International Entomological Association, Entomological Journal 1901, p. 117.
  2. a b Imperial Patent Office, Patentblatt , 1903, p. 392.
  3. International Entomological Association, Entomological Journal 1914, p. 54.
  4. ^ Report of the Württemberg collection of natural materials in Stuttgart for the years 1941 to 1946 , p. XXXIX (PDF; 1.9 MB).
  5. ^ In Memoriam Carl Mühl .
  6. ^ University of Hohenheim: Interesting facts about the Zoological Museum .