Georg Adolf Keferstein
Georg Adolf Keferstein (born October 10, 1793 in Halle (Saale) , † November 28, 1884 in Erfurt ) was a German lawyer and entomologist . His author's abbreviation as a zoologist was “ Kef. "
His main occupation was a lawyer and most recently a court counselor in Erfurt. Already in his youth he collected butterflies and published articles on the history of entomology, for example on the silkworm in antiquity, which was also the subject of one of his last essays. He published in the Revue Entomologique by Gustave Silbermann , Isis by Lorenz Oken , in the negotiations of the kuk Zoological-Botanical Society and in the Szczecin Entomological Journal.
He had a large collection of butterflies, but mostly left initial descriptions from his collection to Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer . She came to the University of Halle with his valuable entomological library. He was a member of the Halle Masonic lodge to the three swords .
Web links
- Obituary in Entomologische Nachrichten 1885, No. 6, pdf
References and comments
- ↑ About the Bombyx of the Ancients. In: Magazine of Entomology by Ernst Friedrich Germar , Volume 3, 1818
- ↑ Aristotle's Bombyx or Bombylius as a silk-producing insect. Negotiations kuk Zoolog.-Botan. Ges. Vienna, 1882
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| SURNAME | Keferstein, Georg Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1884 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |