Friedrich Wilhelm Bösenberg

Friedrich Wilhelm Bösenberg (* 1841 ; † February 2, 1903 in Stuttgart ) was a German businessman and the first amateur arachnologist to systematically collect in Baden-Württemberg .

Bösenberg was a wholesaler for gold and silver jewelry in Pforzheim . But in his spare time he devoted himself to collecting and studying spider species and wrote some expert papers.

Works

In 1894, together with H. Lenz, he wrote the article “East African spiders collected by Dr. F. Stuhlmann in the years 1888 and 1889 ” (in: Supplement to the“ Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions ”, 12th year 1894, Graefe & Sillem, Hamburg 1895). In 1895 he wrote his "contribution to the knowledge of the arachnid fauna of Madeira and the Canary Islands" (in: "Treatises from the field of natural science", publisher: Natural Science Association in Hamburg, Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1895). From 1901 to 1903 he published his important work "Die Spinnen Deutschlands" (in: "Zoologica", Stuttgart, ISSN  0044-5088 ). And in 1906 the book about "Japanese Spiders" appeared , which he had written together with the Norwegian entomologist Embrik Strand (1876-1947) (in the series "Abhandlungen der Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft", Volume 30, 1906, pp. 93-422) .

literature

• Pierre Bonnet (1945). Bibliographia araneorum , Les frères Doularoude (Toulouse).

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library