Ferdinand Karsch

Ferdinand Karsch or pseudonym (with his mother's maiden name) Ferdinand Karsch-Haack (born September 2, 1853 in Münster , † December 20, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German entomologist and sexologist .

Life

Karsch was born in Münster in 1853 as the son of a née Haack and the university professor and entomologist Anton Karsch . After his school days in Münster, Karsch studied entomology like his father and achieved a doctorate at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . Karsch then worked as an assistant at the Zoological Museum for Natural History in Berlin . After his habilitation in 1881, he got a job at the Agricultural University in Berlin . Karsch published a catalog of spiders in Westphalia and was among other things from July 1884 publisher of 1875 by Friedrich Katterfounded professional journal Entomologische Nachrichten .

In addition to his professional work as an entomologist wrote Karsch many articles on homosexuality in animals, which he initially in the journal Yearbook for intermediate sexual stages of Magnus Hirschfeld published. In 1900, with the essay Pederasty and Tribady in Animals, Karsch first provided scientific evidence that same-sex behavior is present in the animal world. Further articles followed, including the biography Assessment of alleged or real Uranians , Same-sex life of civilized peoples - East Asians: Chinese, Japanese, Koreans 1906, Same-sex life of primitive peoples in 1911, Homoeroticism by Paul Heyse in 1914 and Erotic cityscapes as cultural phenomena in 1926.

From 1905 on, Karsch drew his publications mostly with the name Karsch-Haack, using the maiden name of his mother.

Together with René Stelter , Karsch published twelve issues of the Uranos magazine in 1922 and 1923 . Leaves for undiminished humanity. For your own world interpretation! For a fruitful lifestyle! For a fulfilled society! .

In 1915, at the age of 62, he finished teaching at the Agricultural University in Berlin. Karsch lived in Berlin as an openly homosexual in later years . Karsch died in 1936 of pleurisy .

Fonts

• The insects of the Adeli mountain landscape in the hinterland of Togo (West Africa) . Berlin 1893 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.8524
• Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). In: Uranos. Berlin, Volume 1, 1921, No. 6/7, pp. 121-129.
• Same-sex life of indigenous peoples , 1911, online at archive.org

literature

• Robert Aldrich , Garry Wotherspoon (Eds.): Who's who in gay and lesbian history. From antiquity to World War II. 2nd edition. Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-415-15983-0 , pp. 281-282.
• Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.): Man for man. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area. Tape. 1: A - Ras. Revised and supplemented. LIT-Verlag, Münster et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , pp. 630-631
• Sabine Schmidtke : List of publications by Ferdinand Karsch (-Haack) s (1853-1936), in: Capri. Gay History Journal No. 31, December 2001, pp. 13–32. hdl : 20.500.12111 / 86
• Sabine Schmidtke : Ferdinand Karsch-Haack. A biobibliographical abstract, in: Capri. Gay History Journal No. 38, January 2006, pp. 24–36.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for man. 2010, p. 410.
2. ↑ German National Library: Ferdinand Karsch-Haack ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for man. 2010, p. 411.

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Karsch  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Karsch in the catalog of the German National Library