Caspar Stoll
Caspar Stoll (* between 1725 and 1730 in Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel ; † December 1791 in Amsterdam ) was a German entomologist.
Stoll was recorded with his brother in The Hague in 1746 and later lived in Amsterdam, where he moved before 1769 and where he was employed by the Admiralty. In 1761 he married in Scheveningen and had eight children, four of whom were baptized in The Hague and four in Amsterdam (two of whom died early). His main job was temporarily notary. The godparents of his children were Wilhelm V (governor of the Netherlands) and Baron Rengers, both known as butterfly collectors. He owned a house near the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, which he bought in 1778. After the death of his first wife in 1786, he remarried shortly before his death (and had two children with his second wife from Hamburg). His second wife married the mayor of Edam after his death . Stoll was buried on January 2, 1792 in the Noorderkerk .
He was associated with the butterfly collector and businessman Pieter Cramer and, with his nephew, after Cramer's death in 1776, published his richly illustrated work on foreign butterflies (Uitlandische Kapellen, Amsterdam 1775 to 1782). He wrote part of the text himself (according to his own statements in the work, 8 deliveries with 84 plates were ready when Cramer died, he (Stoll) wrote the rest himself). From 1787 to 1791 he published a supplement volume (appendix) with 42 plates. The work is important for entomology because of the excellent illustrations and the first use of the Linnaeus system in exotic butterflies.
In addition to butterflies, he also published articles on other insects, such as crickets, bed bugs and phasmatodea. The publisher of his books in Amsterdam was Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739–1811).
He was a member of the Natural Research Society in Halle.
Fonts
- with Pieter Cramer: De uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa en America, 33 parts in 4 volumes, Amsterdam 1775 to 1782
- Des ... Caspar Stoll 'natural and life-like illustrations and descriptions of cicadas and bugs, and other ... insects ... Translated from the Dutch, Nuremberg: Winterschmidt, 7 Hefte, 1781 to 1792 (translation by JC Heppe)
- Description of the different sexes Cikaden and Banzen, Amsterdam: Sepp 1781
- Proeve van eene rangschikkinge der donsvleugelige insecten, Lepidopterae 1782
- De afbeeldingen der uitlandsche dag- en nagtkapellen, preceeding in the four deelen van het Werk van wijlen den Heere Peter Cramer: in orde gebagt en gevolgd naar mijne proeve van eene systematic rangschikkinge, Amsterdam 1787
- Natuurlijke en naar 't leven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en Beschryvingen der Spooken, wandende Bladen, Zabelspringhaanen, Krekels, treksprinkhaanen en kakkerlakken in all four deelen der waereld, Europe, Asia, Afrika en America huish Casoudende by een verzamelt: Representation exactement colorée d'après nature des Specters, des Mantes, des Sauterelles, des Grillons, des Criquets et des Blattes, qui se trouvent dans les quatre parties du monde, l'Europe, l'Asie, l'Afriques et l'Amérique ., Amsterdam: Sepp 1787, 1790, 1815 (Stoll only issued 4 deliveries of the Specters and one of the Locustes, Houttuyn took care of the rest after his death)
- Natuurlyke en naar 't leeven naauwkeurig gekleurde afbeeldingen en beschryvingen der cicaden en wantzen, in all four waerelds deelen Europa, Asia, Africa en America huishoudende, Amsterdam: Sepp 1780, 1788 to 1790
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the Bibliotheca Entomologica by Hermann August Hagen , 1795 is given as the year of death
- ↑ History of exploration of the Phasmatodea
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stoll, Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1725 and 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1791 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |