Friedrich Eppelsheim

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Friedrich Eppelsheim

Friedrich Eppelsheim (born February 22, 1834 in Bad Dürkheim , † February 11, 1899 in Grünstadt ) was a Bavarian lawyer and lepidopterologist (butterfly researcher).

Life

Friedrich Eppelsheim, son of the politician and landowner Eduard Eppelsheim (er) (1808–1866), attended high school in his hometown Bad Dürkheim. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Bavaria . First he worked in Zweibrücken , then as a district court assessor in Kaiserslautern . On April 19, 1866, Friedrich Eppelsheim became district judge in Grünstadt. Here he rose to the position of chief magistrate and retired in 1899, shortly before his death, due to illness.

Lepidopterology

Friedrich Eppelsheim became interested in natural history early on and, together with his brother Eduard Eppelsheim (1837-1896), was involved in the " Pollichia " , the natural history association of the Palatinate. While his brother became a well-known researcher on staphylinids (beetles), Friedrich Eppelsheim turned to butterflies. The botanist and Pollichia founder Carl Heinrich Schultz wrote in 1859 to the entomologist Carl von Heyden : “I can highly recommend our three lepidopterists from the Palatinate to you: 1. Reg. Rath Bertram, 2. Friedrich Schwerd, 3. Legal candidate Eppelsheim von Dürkheim, in Zweibrücken, a very promising student of Pollichia. "

Eppelsheim belonged to the then leading "Entomological Association Stettin" for more than 25 years and often published articles in the Entomological Newspaper, which was a specialist organ throughout Germany . He owned a very important butterfly collection of over 25,000 that was sold after his death.

At the 49th Meeting of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , held by the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , he chaired the entomologist meeting on the preparation of insects on September 23, 1876 in Hamburg .

In 1885 the butterfly scientist Otto Staudinger named a small butterfly in his honor as "Chrysoesthia eppelsheimi" , since it had been discovered by Friedrich Eppelsheim. In 1901 the leaf miner was named "Parornix eppelsheimi" after him because he had tracked it down in the Heidesheim palace gardens and examined it in detail.

literature

  • Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt , Grünstadt city administration, 1975, page 377
  • Obituary in the Entomologische Zeitung , Stettin, 1899; PDF view
  • Friedrich Bertram: The Lepidoptera Fauna of the Palatinate , Kranzbühler Verlag, Neustadt, 1859, p. 2; Digital view
  • Flora (Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung), Regensburg, year 1860, p. 332; Digital view
  • Friedrich Eppelsheim: Report on an entomological trip to the Stilfser Joche , in: Annual report of Pollichia , 1874, pp. 59–86; Digital view

Web links

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. ^ Annual report on the Königl. Bayer. Latin School and the Real Courses connected with it in Dürkheim an der Haardt, in the school year 1845 , Speyer, 1845, p. 9; Digital view
  3. ^ Gustav Toepke : The register of the University of Heidelberg , Part 6, p. 118, Heidelberg, 1907; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Bayerische Zeitung , Munich, No. 112, of April 23, 1866; Digital view
  5. ^ Justice Ministerial Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich, 1899, p. 372 of the year; Detail scan
  6. ^ Annual report of Pollichia , Bad Dürkheim, 1866, p. 56; Digital view
  7. ^ Obituary of Government Councilor Friedrich Gottlieb Bertram (1814–1881) in Speyer
  8. ↑ Obituary for the brother Eduard Eppelsheim written by Lucas von Heyden
  9. ↑ Entomological Journal 1901, p. 6; Detail scan
  10. ^ Societas entomologica: Organ for the International Entomologists Association , Zurich, year 1899, p. 5; Detail scan
  11. ^ Tageblatt of the 49th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, Hamburg, 1876, p. 128; Digital view
  12. ^ Description of the butterfly with reference to Friedrich Eppelsheim as the namesake
  13. ↑ Website about the animal
  14. ^ Extract from the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1901
personal data
SURNAME Eppelsheim, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and lepidopterist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1899
Place of death Grünstadt