Embrik Beach

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Embrik Strand (born June 2, 1876 in Ål ; died November 3, 1947 in Riga ) was a Norwegian entomologist , arachnologist and university professor.

Life

Embrik Strand spent his childhood and youth up to the age of 16 on a farm by the Strandafjord in Ål municipality. In 1892 he left his home village to go to school in Kristiania, now Oslo . He finished middle and high school in just three years and began studying zoology at the University of Kristiania . From 1898 to 1903 he toured Norway every summer and collected large numbers of insects . The largest part of this collection is now in the Naturhistorisk Museum , where Strand was the deputy curator from 1901 to 1903 .

In 1903, Strand went to Germany to continue his zoological studies at the University of Marburg . Further stations in 1905 were the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt am Main . From 1907 he worked as a scientific assistant for the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1912 as an assistant at the German Entomological Institute in Berlin-Dahlem. Strand's employment in the Museum of Natural History lasted until September 1922, when he married his wife Ida in December of that year. However, she died after three years and the marriage remained childless. In 1923, Strand was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Latvia in Riga , where he headed the systematic-zoological institute and the hydrobiological station until his death. He died in Riga on November 3, 1947.

Researches

Embrik Strand was one of the most productive entomologists and arachnologists of his time, with more than 1,500 described species of spiders, of which, however, more than 400 have been recognized as synonyms of previously described species. In addition, there is a significantly larger number of insects, primarily butterflies and hymenoptera .

Strand was a very active writer. In 1918 he published a list of his publications from the first 20 years of his scientific activity, which contained 1,200 titles. Strand was one of the collaborators in the work Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, edited by Adalbert Seitz . On his 60th birthday, Strand himself published a five-volume commemorative publication in which 195 articles by 126 zoologists and paleontologists from around the world were summarized. From 1910 to 1929 he was editor of the journal Archiv für Naturgeschichte .

The beach was not without controversy in the professional world. The Norwegian zoologists in particular viewed Strand's work as worthless and full of errors. The French arachnologist Pierre Bonnet pointed out in his Bibliographia araneorum , which appeared in 1945 , that a record number of new taxa had been named after Strand. He held against Strand that he had renamed a large number of species that had already been described because he thought the names were wrong. Strand published a list in 1926 in which he renamed 1,700 taxa of the web spiders.

In 1924, Strand was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a member of numerous learned societies , including the Royal Entomological Society of London , the Linnean Society of London and the Zoological Society of London . In 1929 the University of Latvia awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Strand's collection of Norwegian spiders and insects went to the Naturhistorisk Museum in Oslo as early as 1914 . His holotypes are scattered, most of them are in the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg and in the Berlin Museum of Natural History .

Initial descriptions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Embrik Strand: My Entomological Publications. 1897-1918 . In: Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 1918, Volume 37, pp. 161–177, PDF (1.3 MB) on ZOBODAT (bibliography until 1917).
  • Embrik Strand (Ed.): Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. Embrik Strand, Full Professor of Zoology and Director of the Systematic Zoological Institute and the Hydrobiological Station of the University of Latvia, Riga . 5 volumes. Latvija, Riga 1936–1939 (various languages, mainly German).

Dedication names (selection)

Strand's scientific processing of numerous higher taxa of arthropods and his intensive scientific exchange with numerous specialist colleagues have also found their expression in the unusually large number of genera and species named after him:

literature

  • Paul Breiehagen: Embrik Strand 1876-1947. Bondeguten som vart verdskjend vitskapsmann . Ål Museumslag, Ål 1994 (Norwegian), ISBN 82-993197-0-6 (Norwegian).
  • Lauritz Sømme: Entomologiens historie i Norge. Norsk entomologisk forening 1904–2004 . Norsk entomologisk forening, Zoologisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-996923-1-8 (Norwegian).

Web links

Commons : Embrik Strand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Embrik Strand in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nils Johan Rønniksen: Flugu-Embrik fra Ål som ble verdenskjent zoolog . Historeboka.no website , accessed January 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Rohlfien: From the history of the entomological collections of the former German Entomological Institute. III. The Hymenopteran Collection . In: Contributions to Entomology 1979, Volume 29, No. 1, pp. 415-438, doi : 10.21248 / contrib.entomoL29.2.415-438 .
  3. ↑ Hans Sachtleben : Bibliography of the Palearctic Ichneumonids. Biographies and Necrologist . In: Contributions to Entomology 1962, Volume 12, No. 5/6, pp. 720-731, doi : 10.21248 / contrib.entomoL12.5-6.720-731 .
  4. ^ Norman I. Platnick and Robert J. Raven: Spider Systematics: Past and Future . In: Zootaxa 2013, Volume 3683, No. 5, pp. 595-600, doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.3683.5.8 .
  5. ↑ a b c Leif Reinhardt Natvig: Entomologies ved Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet. I Tidsrommet 1813-1907 . In: Norsk Entomoogisk Tidsskrift 1944, Volume 7, No. 1–2, pp. 1–73, here pp. 57–59, ZDB -ID 204397-x .
  6. ↑ GF Knowlton: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Professor Dr. Embrik Strand (book review). In: Annals of the Entomological Society of America 1941, Volume 34, No. 1, p. 16, doi : 10.1093 / aesa / 34.1.16 .
  7. ↑ Pierre Bonnet : Bibliographia Araneorum . Volume 1. Douladoure, Toulouse 1945, pp. 62 and pp. 153-155.
  8. ^ List of members, Embrik Strand , German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Beach, Embrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian entomologist, arachnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Ål
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1947
Place of death Riga