Eduard Eppelsheim

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Eduard Eppelsheim

Eduard Eppelsheim (born May 19, 1837 in Bad Dürkheim , † June 6, 1896 in Germersheim ) was a Bavarian physician and coleopterologist (beetle researcher).

Life

Eduard Eppelsheim, son of the politician and landowner Eduard Eppelsheimer (he) (1808–1866), attended grammar school at Kaiserdom , Speyer and studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Tübingen .

In 1861 he passed his medical state examination as a doctor and practiced in Kandel , Bad Dürkheim , Deidesheim and Wattenheim . During his time in Wattenheim, the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870/71 and Eduard Eppelsheim voluntarily ran a military hospital in Hildenbrandseck Castle, Gimmeldingen . From 1874 on, Eppelsheim ran a doctor's practice in Grünstadt , where his older brother Friedrich Eppelsheim (1834–1899) had been a magistrate since 1866. In 1886 he was appointed Royal District Doctor 1st Class in Germersheim, where he lived until his death.

As a result of his voluntary work in the war of 1870/71 he received the Bavarian Military Merit Cross , the Prussian Order of the Crown, 4th class with an additional Red Cross and the war memorial 1870/71 for non-combatants.

Coleopterologist

Eduard Eppelsheim became interested in natural history early on and, together with his brother Friedrich, was involved in the " Pollichia " , the natural history association of the Palatinate. While his brother turned to lepidopterology (butterfly research), Eduard Eppelsheim became a well-known coleopterologist and staphylinid researcher after he had initially devoted himself to botany.

He discovered numerous new species, some of which were named after him, and published his research results in the Szczecin Entomological Newspaper , leading in this field , but also in other specialist publications. A beetle species named after Eduard Eppelsheim is z. B. "Niphetodes eppelsheimi" . It was given its name in 1896, the year Eppelsheim died, by the entomologist Ludwig Ganglbauer . Edmund Reitter named the beetle "Micropeplus eppelsheimi" after him as early as 1881 .

In his obituary written by Lucas von Heyden , it is said that Eduard Eppelsheim was the best staphylinid researcher alongside Albert-Auguste Fauvel (1851–1909) and Gustav Kraatz . The Natural History Museum Vienna received its important beetle collection posthumously, of 54,000 copies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849 , Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies , Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 2000, p. 311
  2. ↑ Schematism of the Doctors in the Kingdom of Bavaria as of December 31, 1875 , Munich, 1876, p. 26; Digital view
  3. ↑ Ph Schneider: The war years 1870 and 1871 in the communities Mußbach and Gimmeldingen , Neustadt, 1876, p. 27; Digital view
  4. ^ Munich medical weekly journal , year 1886, p. 692; Detail scan
  5. ^ Annual report of Pollichia , Bad Dürkheim, 1866, p. 56; Digital view
  6. ↑ Insect website
  7. ↑ Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien , Volume 11, p. 178, Vienna 1896; Detail scan
  8. ↑ Insect website
  9. ^ Oscar Schneider, Hans Leder: Contributions to the knowledge of the Caucasian beetle fauna , Brünn, 1878, p. 14; Digital view
  10. ↑ Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna , Volume 12, p. 4 u. 26, Vienna 1897; Detail scan
personal data
SURNAME Eppelsheim, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, Bavarian district doctor, coleopterologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1896
Place of death Germersheim