Karl Eckstein

Karl Georg Wilhelm Eckstein (born December 28, 1859 in Grünberg , Hessen; † April 22, 1939 in Dubrovnik (then Ragusa)) was a German forest scientist and entomologist who specialized in butterflies .

Life

Eckstein was the son of district judge Ferdinand Eckstein (1822–1871) and his wife Luise, nee Becker, a pastor's daughter. He attended the grammar school in casting and then studied zoology at the local university . In 1886 he went to Eberswalde as an assistant to Professor Bernard Altum at the zoological institute of the Neustadt-Eberswalde Forest Academy , where he qualified as a professor in 1890 and was appointed professor in 1896 . In 1900 he became a full professor of forest zoology and successor to Altum. After his retirement in 1925, he continued his teaching and research work for another five years. He died in Dubrovnik in 1939 while on a recreational trip.

From 1905 to 1911 he was the first chairman of the Eberswalde Local History Association, which he founded together with Mayor Ernst Hopf and others.

plant

The five-volume The Butterflies of Germany (1913–1933) are his main work. In addition to forestry, it dealt with fishing.

• The pine and its animal pests , Repetitorium der Zoologie, 1889
• Fishing and fish farming (Göschen Collection Volume 159) , GJ Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig 1902
• The fishing conditions in the province of Brandenburg at the beginning of the 20th century, including fishing license , 1903
• The technique of forest protection against animals. Instructions for the implementation of preventive and eradication measures in the hands of the district manager, forest protection officer and private forest owner , Parey, Berlin 1904
• Fishing conditions in the province of Brandenburg , 2 volumes, 1908
• Animal life in the German forest. Contributions to the knowledge of domestic animals , published by Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1909

• The butterflies of Germany with special consideration of their biology and economic importance , Deutscher Lehrerverein für Naturkundeverein e. V., Stuttgart
  • Volume 1: General Part. Special part (1). Die Tagfalter , KG Lutz 'Verlag 1913
  • Volume 2: Special Part. Continuation (2). The hawkers and spinners (Sphingidae - Thyrididae) , KG Lutz 'Verlag, 1915
  • Volume 3: Special Part. Continuation (3). The owl-like moths , KG Lutz 'Verlag 1920
  • Volume 4: Special Part. Conclusion (4). The tensioners and the bear-like butterflies , KG Lutz 'Verlag 1923
  • Volume 5: Die Kleinschmetterlinge Deutschlands , KG Lutz 'Verlag 1933
• The cockchafer , their control and recovery , J. Neumann, 1912
• The rabbit, its way of life, economic importance and control, as well as the defense against the harm it threatens , Neudammer forest instruction booklets, 1917
• The technology of forest protection against animals , Berlin, Parey, 1915
• The butterflies, their structure, their way of life and economic importance, together with instructions for observation, rearing and collecting , Wiesbaden, Pestalozzi Verlags-Anstalt, 1922
• Pictures from insect life , Ullstein, Berlin 1925

• Collaboration on the Neudammer Förster textbook, J. Neumann, 1929

literature

• Gerrit Friese: Memorial sheet for Professor Dr. Karl Eckstein ( PDF )
• Hellmuth Gäbler:  Eckstein, Karl Georg Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 304 ( digitized version ).
• History of the Eberswalde Local History Association ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : The butterflies of Germany with special consideration of their biology  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by Karl Eckstein at Archive.org