Ernst August Hellmuth from Kiesenwetter

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Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter (born November 5, 1820 in Dresden , † March 18, 1880 ibid) was a German entomologist .

Kiesenwetter was a lawyer, studied in Leipzig until 1843 and was a secret councilor in Bautzen from 1856 , later in Dresden. He was also an insect collector, mostly from beetles, and began publishing as an entomologist in the 1840s.

In 1857 he published the beetle section in the natural history of insects in Germany . He collected in Greece and Spain and published on the beetle fauna of Japan and the Amur region.

His beetle collection is in the Zoological State Collection in Munich and his collection of hymenoptera and bugs in the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden .

Honors

In 1866 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

literature

  • Anonymous: Obituary in Entom. Mon. Mag., Volume 16, 1880, 280.
  • Wilhelm Hess :  Kiesenwetter, Ernst Hellmuth from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 725 f.
  • LA Herman: Kiesenwetter, Ernst August Hellmuth von, Bulletin American Museum Natural History, Volume 265, 2001, 85-86.
  • Entry in John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer Verlag, 2008, Volume 4, Online .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Ernst August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kiesenwetter, Ernst August Hellmuth from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1880
Place of death Dresden