Hermann Loew

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Hermann Loew

Friedrich Hermann Loew (born July 19, 1807 in Weißenfels , † April 21, 1879 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German entomologist .

Life

Hermann Loew studied at the University of Halle and was a teacher of mathematics and natural history at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Poznan and later worked as a professor and director of the secondary school in Meseritz . He was also politically active and was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (in which his brother Friedrich Loew was also represented) from June 18, 1848 to May 20, 1849 , and of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876 . In 1868 he gave up his teaching profession, moved to Guben and devoted himself to entomology. In 1876 he suffered a stroke and afterwards became increasingly paralyzed and, moreover, no longer capable of intellectual work.

His scientific achievements include, in particular, his work on flies (Insecta: Diptera). He published numerous scientific papers from 1840 to 1878 and described around 4000 new species.

Loew described numerous predatory flies (Asilidae) for the first time. Most of his collection (mostly dipteras from Europe) is now in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. It was bought by the Prussian state after Loew's death and, according to the then curator Paul Stein, comprised around 60,000 specimens of 7,500 species.

He worked closely with Carl Robert Osten-Sacken on Diptera from North America. A joint collection went to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. In the collaboration, Osten-Sacken mostly left the initial descriptions to Loew and translated his writings into English.

He was married from 1834. The marriage lasted until Loew's death. Of his seven children, three sons survived him. He is buried in Halle.

Fonts

  • 1837: Dipterological Notes. In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 1, pp. 1–10, Vienna 1837.
  • 1840: About the two-winged species found in the Grand Duchy of Posen [Reprint: Remarks about the species of several two-winged genera native to the Poznan area. Posen, 1840, pp. 1-40]. In: Isis. Pp. 512-584, Jena 1840.
  • 1844: Description of some new genera of the European Diptera fauna. In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 5, pp. 114-130, 154-173, 165-168, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1844.
  • 1844: Dioctria hercyniae, a new species . In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 5, pp. 381-382, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1844.
  • 1847: Dipterology . In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 8, pp. 368-376, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1847.
  • 1847: About the European predatory flies (Diptera, Asilica) . In: Linnaea entomologica . Volume 2, 1847, pp. 384-568, 585-591.
  • 1847: Nomina systematica generum dipterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum disposita, adjectis auctoribus, libris in quibus reperiuntur, anno editionis, etymologia et familiis ad quas pertinent. In: Agassiz: Nomenclator zoologicus . Solothurn 1847, Fasc. 9/10
  • 1848: About the European species of the genus Eumerus . In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 9, pp. 118-128, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1848.
  • 1848: About the European predatory flies (Diptera, Asilica) . In: Linnaea entomologica . Volume 3, 1848, pp. 386-495.
  • 1849: About the European predatory flies (Diptera, Asilica) . In: Linnaea entomologica . Volume 4, 1849, pp. 1-155.
  • 1850: About amber and the amber fauna . In: Program K. Realschule zu Meseritz 1850. pp. 1–4, 1–44, Berlin 1850.
  • 1851: Notes on the Asiliden family . In: Program K. Realschule zu Meseritz 1851. pp. 1–22, Berlin 1851.
  • 1851: Supplements to the European Asilids . In: Linnaea entomologica . Volume 5, 1851, pp. 407-416.
  • 1852: Diagnoses of the Diptera from Peter's journey in Mossambique . In: Report on the negotiations of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1852. pp. 658–661, Berlin 1852.
  • 1853: New contributions to the knowledge of the Diptera. First post . In: Program K. Realschule zu Meseritz 1853. pp. 1–37, Berlin 1853.
  • 1854: New contributions to the knowledge of the Diptera. Second post . In: Program K. Realschule zu Meseritz 1854. pp. 1–24, Berlin 1854.
  • 1855: Four new Greek Diptera . In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 16, pp. 39-41, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1855.
  • 1856: Diptera. In: Rosenhauer: The animals Anadalusia compiled after the results of a trip . Blaesing, Erlangen 1856.
  • 1856: New contributions to the knowledge of the Diptera. Fourth post . In: Program K. Realschule zu Meseritz 1856. pp. 1–57, Berlin 1856.
  • 1857: Dipterological communications . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 1, pp. 33–56, pp. 36–37, Vienna 1857.
  • 1857: Dipterological Notes . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 1, pp. 1–10, Vienna 1857.
  • 1857: Dischistus multisetosus and Saropogon aberrans, two new European dipteras . In: Stettiner entomological newspaper. Volume 18, pp. 17-20, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1857.
  • 1858: Report on the more recent phenomena in the field of dipterology . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 2, pp. 325-349, Berlin 1858.
  • 1858: Description of some Japanese dipteras . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 2, pp. 100-112, Vienna 1858.
  • 1858: Bidrag till kännendomen om Africa's Diptera . In: Öfvers. Svenska Vet. -Akad. Förhandl. Volume 14 (9), 1857, pp. 337-383 (342-367).
  • 1859: Bidrag till kännendomen om Africa's Diptera . In: Öfvers. Svenska Vet. -Akad. Förhandl. Vol. 15, 1858, pp. 335-341 (337-339).
  • 1859: About the European Helomyzidae and their species occurring in Silesia . In: Linnaea entomologica . Volume 13, 1859, pp. 3-80.
  • 1860: The Diptera fauna of South Africa. First division . In: Treatises of the Natural Science Association for Saxony and Thuringia. Volume 2, 1858-1861, pp. 56-402, pp. 128-244, Halle.
  • 1860: Three dipteras discovered by Dr Friedrich Stein in Dalmatia . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 4, pp. 20-24, Vienna 1860.
  • 1861: Diptera aliquot in insula Cuba collecta . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 5, pp. 33–43, Vienna 1861.
  • 1861: The European species of the genus Stenopogon . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 5, pp. 8-13, Vienna 1861.
  • 1862: Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 6, pp. 185-232, pp. 188-193, Berlin 1862.
  • 1862: Diptera In: Zweiflügler In: Wilhelm CH Peters: Trip to Mossambique on the orders of Sr Maj. Of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Carried out in the years 1842–1848. 5. Insects u. Amphibians . Reimer, Berlin 1862.
  • 1862: About some Diptera caught near Varna . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 6, pp. 161–175, Vienna 1862.
  • 1862: About Greek Diptera . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 6, pp. 69-89, Berlin 1862.
  • 1863: Enumeratio dipterorum quae C.Tollin ex Africa merdionali (Orangestaat, Bloemfontein) misit . In: Vienna Entomological Monthly. Volume 7, pp. 9-16, Vienna 1863.
  • 1865: About some Diptera caught near Kutais in Imereti . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 9, pp. 234-242, Berlin 1865.
  • 1866: Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 10, pp. 1-54, pp. 15-37, Berlin 1866.
  • 1868: Cilico Diptera and some competing species . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 12, pp. 369-386, Berlin 1868.
  • 1869: Descriptions of European Diptera. Systematic description of the well-known European double-winged insects by Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Volume I. Halle 1869, pp. 61–121.
  • 1870: Diptera. In: L. von Heyden: Entomological trip to southern Spain, the Sierra Guadarrama and Sierra Morena, Portugal and the Cantabrian Mountains with a description of the new species . Berlin 1870, pp. 211-212.
  • 1870: Lobioptera speciosa Meig. and decora nov.sp. In: Journal for the whole of natural science. Volume 35, pp. 9-14, Braunschweig, Berlin-Dahlem 1870.
  • 1870: About the dipteras collected by Dr. G. Seidlitz in Spain . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 14, pp. 137-144, Berlin 1870.
  • 1871: Descriptions of European Dipteras. Systematic description of the well-known European double-winged insects by Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Volume II. Halle 1871, pp. 70–196.
  • 1872: Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena . In: Berlin entomological journal. Volume 16, pp. 49-115, pp. 62-74, Berlin 1872.
  • 1873: Comments on the Egyptian and Arab Dipteras described by Mr. F. Walker in Volume 5 of the Entomologist . In: Journal for the whole of natural science. Volume 42, pp. 105-109, Braunschweig, Berlin-Dahlem 1873.
  • 1873: Descriptions of European Diptera. Systematic description of the well-known European double-winged insects by Johann Wilhelm Meigen. Volume III. Halle 1873, pp. 120–144.
  • 1874: Diptera nova a Hug.Theod . Christopho collecta . In: Journal for the whole of natural science. Volume 43, New Series Volume 9, pp. 413-420, Braunschweig, Berlin-Dahlem 1874.
  • 1874: New North American Dasypogonina . In: Berlin entomological journal. 18, pp. 353-377, Berlin 1874.
  • 1874: About the species of the genus Blepharotes Westw. In: Journal for the whole of natural science. Volume 10, 44, pp. 71-75, Braunschweig, Berlin-Dahlem 1874.
  • 1881: Stein: The Löw Diptera Collection . In: Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. Volume 42, pp. 489-491, Szczecin (= Stettin) 1874.

literature

  • Herbert Osborn: A Brief History of Entomology. Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with Over Five Hundred Portraits. Spahr & Glenn, Columbus 1952 (with picture)
  • Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .
  • NL Evenhuis: Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum (1758–1930) . Volume II: L-Z. Backhuys, Leiden 1997.
  • CP Alexander: Baron Osten Sacken and his Influence on American Dipterology, Annual Review of Entomology, 14, 1969, pp. 1-19 (with biography of Loew), pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , pp. 250-251; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 228-231.
personal data
SURNAME Loew, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loew, Friedrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1879
Place of death Halle (Saale)