Beetle collectors

A bug collector is a collector of beetles .

The beetle collector often has no specific academic qualification, but rather practices collecting beetles as a hobby out of an interest in nature. However, numerous collectors are so familiar with the area that they also make contributions to scientific beetle science, to coleopterology . In addition to the hobby collections, there are scientific collections where the beetles are scientifically processed by entomologists ( entomologists ), coleopterologists (beetle researchers) and other experts. For example, Georg Frey's beetle collection, comprising around three million copies, was included in the register of the national valuable cultural property of Bavaria and, among other things, only loaned to the Natural History Museum Basel under the condition that the collection "must be preserved in its entirety and scientifically developed" .

Even Charles Darwin began in his youth as a beetle collector before he became a scientist. One of the most popular beetle collectors of the 20th century was the writer Ernst Jünger , after whom the Ernst Jünger Prize for Entomology was named.

Well-known beetle collectors

• Karl Martin Baderle
• Franz Baldia
• Alois Raphael Estreicher
• Paul Gussmann
• Georg Frey
• Leopold Hacker
• Leonard Jenyns
• Ernst Jünger
• Jan ten Doornkaat Koolman
• Ludwig lion
• Gottfried Luze
• Gustav Mayr
• Ludwig Miller
• Edmund Reitter
• Oscar Scheibel
• Siegfried Steiner
• Vadim Borisovich Shavrov

literature

• Ernst Hoffmann : The beetle collector . Hoffman, Stuttgart 1883 (reprint Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 2000).
• A. Harrach: The beetle collector. Practical instructions for catching, preparing, storing and rearing the beetles. Manufacture of dry insect preparations, manufacture of microscopic objects, creation of biological collections, insectariums, etc; together with a detailed beetle calendar . Voigt, Weimar 1884.
• Karl Wingelmüller: The beetle and butterfly collector . Instructions for the production and handling of the devices that have proven suitable for catching, breeding and preparing beetles, butterflies and caterpillars, as well as for creating and maintaining collections of insects . Creutz, Magdeburg 1885.
• Paul Kuhnt: The beetle collector . Thomas, Leipzig 1912.
• Alexander Bau: The beetle collector . Union, Stuttgart 1916
• Camillo Mell: The beetle collector. Practical instructions for catching and preparing the beetles . Künstler, Böhmisch Leipa 1929.

Web links

• Digital dictionary of the German language: Käfersammler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl-Heinz Heurer: "Which cultural asset is nationally valuable?" , in: FAZ of February 4, 2016, p. 8.
2. ↑ Anette Hipp: Protection of cultural assets in Germany . Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 76/77
3. ↑ Angela et al. Karlheinz Steinmüller: Charles Darwin. From beetle collector to naturalist . Biography. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1985.