Karl Friedrich Vieweg

Karl Friedrich Vieweg , also Carl Friedrich Vieweg , (* 1761 ; † July 28, 1833 in Berlin ) was a German entomologist .

Life

His main occupation was Karl Friedrich Vieweg as a Prussian war council and secret secretary. He was in the second department of the Ober-Kriegs-Colleg in Berlin. From 1781 to 1814 he was a member of the Grand State Lodge of the Freemasons in Berlin.

His work on the butterflies of Brandenburg is based on the descriptions of Johann Siegfried Hufnagel with the comments of SA von Rottemburg . According to the preface in the first volume (which speaks of authors in the plural), Heinrich Jakob Laspeyres and the preachers Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst , Karl Ludwig Gronau and the preacher Conrad and war counselor Johann Friedrich Kirstein (died around 1800) were collaborators . The author's name only appears on the title page in the second issue (as Carl Friedrich Vieweg). The descriptions are restricted to moths, as butterflies have already been discussed in detail in other works (they are only listed briefly). Apparently a sequel was planned. The first booklet has 70 pages of text, the second 98 pages and three copperplate plates by Steinberg.

The first descriptions of the moth Diarsia rubi , the great winter owl and the willow carmine come from Vieweg .

Fonts

• Tabular list of the butterflies indigenous to Churmark Brandenburg . 2 parts, Wilhelm Vieweg d. J., Berlin 1789, 1790, SUB Göttingen , Heft 1, Google Books , Heft 2, Google Books

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georgenkirche (Berlin) : church book . Funerals. No. 729/1833.
2. ↑ Uta Motschmann (Ed.): Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786–1815 . De Gruyter 2015 (later also the date of birth 1761).
3. ↑ Ferdinand Ochsenheimer : The butterflies of Saxony . Part 1, Leipzig 1806, p. 17f.