Heinz joy

Heinz Freude (born January 25, 1911 in Bautzen , † January 7, 2007 in Ancona ) was a German teacher and coleopterologist . His central work is Die Käfer Mitteleuropas , which he edited with Karl-Wilhelm Harde and Gustav Adolf Lohse .

Life

youth

Heinz Freude was born in 1911 in Bautzen, the son of foreman Camillo Freude and his wife Bertha Freude (née Thomas). He attended elementary school in Bautzen and then the rural high school in the same place and finally passed his Abitur there in 1930.

Teaching profession and military service

After graduating from high school, Freude went to the University of Leipzig to begin a teaching degree in music, zoology and botany. In 1935 he graduated with the state examination.

From 1936 he was employed as a trainee teacher at the Bautzen secondary school and the Löbauer secondary school, and from 1937 at the Meißen Franziskaneum. Due to a lack of apprenticeships, he then went to the vocational schools in Königsbrück and Altenberg in the Ore Mountains , before he worked as a study assessor at the secondary schools in Belgard in Pomerania from 1938 to 1941 . In 1941 he was called up for military service and took part in the Wehrmacht's Russian campaign as an infantryman . In October 1941 he was badly wounded in the larynx. He was then operated on in 1942 at the Heidelberg University Hospital . In the same year he was appointed senior student councilor and formally transferred to the secondary schools in Fraustadt and Bunzlau . In fact, however, he continued his military service as a typist in Belgard and Flatow . As part of a study leave, the Wehrmacht put him on leave in 1944.

New studies and scientific work

Joy first began studying at the Art Academy in Dresden, but had to give it up due to the approaching war. He finally went to Munich and studied medicine there; He completed his nursing service in Aschau im Chiemgau , where he witnessed the end of the Second World War. The circumstances in post-war Germany made it impossible for him to continue his studies and so he accepted a position at the Zoological State Collection in Munich - first as a scientific assistant, then as administrator of an assistant position and finally from 1948 as a scientific assistant. In 1952 he became a curator, in 1958 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. with the work Die Monommiden der Welt . In 1965 he was appointed senior curator, in 1972 - one year before his retirement - he was appointed state curator. In 2007, he passed away in Italian Ancona .

plant

In the course of his life, Heinz Freude published around 80 scientific papers on beetles . In addition to the four-part monograph Die Monommiden der Welt , which served as his dissertation, it also includes comprehensive works on the American black beetles (Tenebrionidae) in three parts and the genus Zabrus . Together with Karl-Wilhelm Harde , Gustav Adolf Lohse and Bernhard Klausnitzer he edited the manual Die Käfer Mitteleuropas in 11 volumes and 4 supplements, which is considered the standard work for the beetle identification in Central Europe.

literature

• Heinz Joy, Karl-Wilhelm Harde, Gustav Adolf Lohse, Bernhard Klausnitzer: The Beetles of Central Europe. Volume 2: Adephaga 1: Carabidae (ground beetles). 2nd Edition. Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-8274-1551-9 , pp. VI – VIII.
• Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana, volumes 136-139 . Fratelli Pagano - Tipografi Editori 2004, p. 61.