Karl Wilhelm Harde

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Karl Wilhelm Harde ( January 1, 1922 - October 15, 1982 ) was a German entomologist . He emerged primarily as a coleopterologist . His central work is Die Käfer Mitteleuropas , which he edited with Gustav Adolf Lohse and Heinz Freude .

Life

With the dissertation The postnatal growth of cytoarchitectonic units in the cerebrum of the white mouse , a contribution to developmental neurobiology , Harde received his doctorate in 1948 from the philosophical and natural science faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

He found a job at the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart (SMNS) , whose entomological department he headed from 1956 until his death in 1982. He published many of his scientific research results in the series Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History (from the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart) .

In 1958 Harde was one of the founding members of the Working Group of Württemberg Coleopterologists (today Working Group of Southwest German Coleopterologists, ARGE SWD Coleopterologists for short), which he chaired together with the doctor Rudolf Köstlin from 1958 to 1982.

Harde's most important achievement, which earned him international scientific recognition, was the comprehensive presentation of Die Käfer Mitteleuropas , begun in 1964 , which he published together with Gustav Adolf Lohse and Heinz Freude . This series, also known for short as Freude / Harde / Lohse, comprised 15 volumes in the following decades and is considered a standard work in the field of coleopterology.

In addition, however, Karl Wilhelm Harde also advocated the preparation of scientific contexts in a popular scientific and thus generally understandable form. He had great success with its in publishing Franckh Cosmos appeared Bestimmungsbuch The Cosmos Käferführer. The Central European Beetles (1981), which he himself - thanks to the more than 1000 color pictures by František Severa (1924 to 2005) - regarded as a kind of complement to Freude / Harde / Lohse . The seventh edition appeared in 2014. Harde also worked on other Kosmos nature guides as a translator, editor or consultant. He also translated and edited several natural history books for the publishing house Das Beste .

Fonts

Books I wrote myself

  • The postnatal growth of cytoarchitectonic units in the cerebrum of the white mouse , dissertation, Münster 1948.
  • Useful vermin. Beneficial insects in the home , with drawings by Friedrich Heller a. a., Kosmos Library (Volume 244), Stuttgart 1964.
  • as co-editor and co-author: Die Käfer Mitteleuropas , Munich 1964 ff. (15 volumes).
  • together with Hans Pfletschinger : Colorful world of beetles. 120 local beetles in color , color photos by F. Bretzendorfer and drawings by Sigrid Haag, Stuttgart 1978 ( ISBN 3-440-04639-7 ).
  • The cosmos beetle leader. The Central European Beetles , with color pictures by František Severa, Stuttgart 1981 (7th edition [new edition, revised by Martin Baehr] under the title Der Kosmos-Käferführer. The Beetles of Central Europe . Kosmos, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-13932- 5 ).

Translations and edits

  • James Fisher, Julian Huxley (ed.): The world of nature. Earth, plant, animal, human (original title: Nature ), Hausbuch des Wissens in Bilder (Volume 2), Stuttgart 1962 (most recently Klagenfurt 1976) - translation and editing together with Horst Bader.
  • Gordon Manley (Ed.): The world and its continents. Our earth, its peoples, its treasures (original title: Geography. Our Planet, Its Peoples and Resources ), Hausbuch des Wissens in Bilder (Volume 3), Stuttgart 1963 (most recently Klagenfurt 1976) - translation and editing together with Horst Bader.
  • Georg Rein, Joachim Zech: Wonderful world of butterflies. A guide to our domestic butterflies , Stuttgart 1967 (2nd edition Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-440-03472-0 ) - processing and advice.
  • Author collective: Reader's Digest picture atlas of the animal world (original title: The Living World of Animals ). Stuttgart, Zurich and Vienna 1971 (several editions, most recently Stuttgart, Zurich and Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-87070-293-1 ) - translation and editing together with Herta Harde.
  • Author collective: Animals in their world. How they live and survive , Stuttgart, Zurich and Vienna 1974 ( ISBN 3-87070-075-0 ) - translation and editing.
  • Jiří Zahradník : The Cosmos Insect Guide. A determination book , Stuttgart 1976 (3rd edition Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-440-04849-7 ) - technical advice for the German edition.
  • Durward L. Allen et al .: Experience nature, understand nature (original title: Joy of Nature ), Stuttgart, Zurich and Vienna 1979 ( ISBN 3-87070-138-2 ) - translation and editing.
  • Paul Whalley: Identifying butterflies made easy. European butterflies (original title: Hamlyn Nature Guide Butterflies ), Stuttgart 1979 ( ISBN 3-440-04749-0 ) - translation and editing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data on the website of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives ; accessed on August 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Information on the entomological department of the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart ; accessed on August 8, 2014
  3. ↑ The ARGE SWD Coleopterologists on the website of the Entomological Association Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on August 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.entomologie-stuttgart.de
  4. ↑ cf. in addition z. B. Entomological Reports Lucerne , No. 13, June 1985, p. 87 ( pdf )
personal data
SURNAME Harde, Karl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harde, Karl-Wilhelm; Harde, Karl W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1922
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1982