Georg Benick

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Georg Ludwig Benick (born July 2, 1901 in Lübeck ; † January 11, 1992 there ) was a German lawyer and entomologist . Its author's abbreviation is G. Benick .

Life

Georg Benick was a son of the teacher and curator at the Museum für Naturkunde im Museum am Dom , today's Museum for Nature and Environment Lübeck , Ludwig Benick . His father began collecting and describing beetles at an early age. He was considered a leading specialist in the Staphilinidae ( short-winged ) subfamilies Steninae , Megalopsidiinae and Euaesthetinae (Coleoptera).

Georg Benick attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in 1921. He studied law at the Universities of Tübingen and Kiel. In 1925 he was in Kiel with a thesis on neutral legal States on the use of arms in defense of their territory for Dr. jur. PhD.

In 1927 he joined a law firm in Lübeck. He specialized in German and international transport law . In 1935 he set up his own law firm. He was also a certified tax lawyer and notary . The law firm still exists today as a partnership. During World War II he served in a transport company.

In 1944 in Hamburg he met the dentist and coleopterologist Gustav Adolf Lohse , from which a lifelong friendship and collaboration developed.

He inherited a large collection from his father, which he increased, and a special interest in staphilinids (short-winged birds). His specialty was the subgenus Atheta . His first article with the first description of Atheta ermischi appeared in 1934.

estate

His collection of staphilinids, which his father had begun, came to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève in Geneva . The regional part went to the Natural History Museum in Lübeck.

Works

  • The right of neutral states to use weapons to defend their territory. Kiel, Law and Political Science Dissertation, 1925
  • New Athetes (Col. Staphyl.) From Germany and the countries closest to it. Stuttgart: State Museum for Natural History 1975 (= Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 273)

literature

  • Lee H. Herman: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. Part I. Introduction, History, and Biographical Sketches. In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265 (2001), pp. 42–43 ( digitized version )

Web links

 Wikispecies: Georg Benick  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical information, accessed on July 23, 2018
  2. ↑ The firm's website , accessed on July 23, 2018
  3. ↑ Benick, Ludwig , Biographies of Entomologists of the World , accessed on July 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Benick, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benick, Georg Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1992
Place of death Lübeck