Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich- Schäffer (born December 17, 1799 in Regensburg ; † April 14, 1874 there ) was a physician , city doctor in Regensburg, district court doctor and well-known entomologist .
Live and act
During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in the winter semester of 1818/19 . From 1833 he served as town doctor, worked as Stadtgerichts- and county court physician in Regensburg, where in addition to his brother, the practitioner Carl Herrich, also in 1836 elected mayor Gottlieb Thon-Dittmer as Bubenreuth were among the leading circle of National Liberals in the city . In 1846 Herrich-Schäffer founded the zoological-mineralogical association in Regensburg and became known outside of Regensburg with a correspondence sheet . In 1871 he was made an honorary citizen of the city.
Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer also collected and sold insects, especially butterflies (Lepidoptera). Parts of his collection went to the Zoological Museum Berlin via Otto Staudinger and to the Zoological State Collection in Munich via MJ Bastelberger . Many microlepidoptera in the collection went to the British Museum (Natural History) via Ottmar Hofmann .
From 1861 to 1871 he was chairman of the Regensburg Botanical Society . In 1864 Herrich-Schäffer was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In addition to his continuation of Panzer's "Fauna insectorum Germaniae" , (Heft 111-190, Regensburg 1830-1844) he wrote a "Nomenclator entomologicus" , (Thl. 1 and 2, Regensburg 1835-1840), the "Systematic processing of butterflies from Europe ” (Volume 1–6 with copper, Regensburg 1843–1856) and continued “ Die bug-like insects ” by Carl Wilhelm Hahn (Volume 4–9, Nuremberg 1839–1853).
literature
- Herrich-Schäffer, Gottl. Aug. , in: Herders Conversations-Lexikon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1855, Volume 3, p. 291
- Dr. Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer. (Necrolog) . In: Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . Edited by Dr. WFG Behn, booklet X. Dresden May 1874, pp. 2–5 ( digitized version )
- Ottmar Hofmann: Necrolog . In: Entomological Newspaper . 35th year 1874, July – September, pp. 277–284 ( digitized version )
- Franz von Kobell : Necrology on Dr. GAH Schäffer . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich, 5, 1875, 125–126 digitized
- Wilhelm Hess : Herrich-Schäffer, Gottlieb August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 530 f.
- Ilse Jahn : Herrich-Schäffer, Gottlieb August Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 683 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Biographies of the world's entomologists, Herrich-Schaeffer, Gottlieb August Wilhelm , Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (SDEI)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 43.
- ↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Druckerei und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 119 .
- ↑ Member entry by Gottlieb August Herrich-Schaeffer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 2, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrich-Schäffer, Gottlieb August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herrich-Schäffer, Gottlieb August Wilhelm (full name); Herrich-Schäffer, GAW |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physician, lepidopterist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Regensburg , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1874 |
| Place of death | Regensburg , Germany |