Hermann Julius Kolbe

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermann Julius Kolbe

Hermann Julius Kolbe (born June 2, 1855 in Halle / Westphalia , † November 26, 1939 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German entomologist specializing in beetles .

Live and act

Hermann Julius Kolbe was the son of Heinrich Friedrich Kolbe a. Amalie Pauline Sophie Cherouny. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Münster, where he studied natural sciences, but had to break off his studies for health reasons and difficult family circumstances. From 1878 to 1882 he was a teacher (according to other information, school administrator) at the grammar school in Oeding / Westphalia, from 1882 assistant in the entomological department of the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin under Wilhelm CH Peters , from 1884 to 1885 editor of the German Entomological Journal . From 1890 to 1921 Kolbe was curator of the zoological collection Coleoptera / Neuroptera of the Royal Museum for Natural History in Berlin, in 1900 he was appointed professor ; Kolbe married in 1902 . On April 1, 1921 , at the age of 65, he retired, but published until 1938 . Kolbe lived in Berlin-Lichterfelde, Villa Mantichora.

Kolbe made several trips to various African countries. His specialties were the scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) and long beetles (Brenthidae) and he worked on all groups of beetles with the exception of the Staphylinoidea .

Works

  • Kolbe, HJ: Introduction to the Knowledge of Insects , Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin (1893)

Between 1883 and 1938 Kolbe published around 350 articles in entomology, palaeontology and zoogeography

  • Relationships among the species of Poecilaspis (Cassididae) together with a description of a new species of this genus discovered by Mr. R. Rohde in Paraguay , Ent. Nachr., 13, pp. 10-13 (1887).
  • Contributions to the zoogeography of West Africa together with a report on the events during the Loango expedition by Dr. Falkenstein near Chinchoxo collected Coleoptera , Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. German. Akad. Naturf., 1, 3, pp. 155-364 (1887). (Also published as a book by E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden).
  • Beetles and netwings of East Africa . In: K. Möbius (ed.), German East Africa. Scientific research results about the country and people of our East African protected area and the neighboring countries. Volume IV. The animal world of East Africa and the neighboring areas. Invertebrates. Verlag Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin (1898)

literature

  • M. Uhlig u. B. Jaeger: On the research of the beetle fauna of the afrotropic region by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin with an overview of the coleopterological results of the first joint expedition of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin a. of the State Museum Windhoek in Namibia in Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. 71 (1995) 2, pp. 213-245
  • Arb. Morphol. Taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem, Vol. 7, 1940, No. 1, pp. 75-76
  • F. Ohaus: Entomol. Leaves, Jan. 22, 1912, pp. 1-4
  • Norsk Entomologisk Tidsskrift, Bind IV, Oslo 1943, p. 51

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Daum Scientific popularization in the 19th century , Oldenbourg R. Verlag GmbH (1998), ISBN 3-486-56337-8
  2. ↑ Deut. Entomol. Magazine - 150 years of scientific publishing in entomology ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 162 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / download.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kolbe, Hermann Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolbe, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle / Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1939
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde