David Hinrich Schneider

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David Hinrich Schneider (born October 13, 1755 in Stralsund ; † November 26, 1826 there ) was a German lawyer and entomologist .

Life

David Hinrich Schneider attended Stralsund high school . He studied law from 1774 to 1777 at the University of Göttingen and then until 1778 at the University of Greifswald . He worked as a lawyer with admission to the Wismar Tribunal and the Greifswald Court Court in Stralsund, where he was a member of the city council from 1795 to 1808.

In his free time he was engaged in entomology and put on extensive insect collections. He was the author and editor of several entomological works. He worked with Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen on his systematic natural history of European butterflies. (Frankfurt 1788–1794, 5 volumes), for which he also wrote the introduction.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nomenclator entomologicus. 1785. ( Google books )
  • Systematic description of the European butterflies. 3 parts, 1785-1790.
  • The latest magazine for entomology lovers. 6 issues, 1791–1794.

literature

  • Schneider, David Hinrich . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 389.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Spormann: The large butterflies observed so far in northwestern New Western Pomerania. In: Annual report of the Stralsund high school, Easter 1907. Stralsund 1907, p. 5
  2. ^ A b Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel (ed.): The learned Teutschland - Lexicon of the now living German writers. Lemgo 1798. Volume 7, p. 254 ( Google books ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, David Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, David Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1826
Place of death Stralsund