Kurt Delkeskamp

Kurt Delkeskamp (born May 17, 1902 in Bersenbrück , † June 6, 1988 in Bad Abbach ) was a German librarian and entomologist .

Life

Delkeskamp was the son of the Berlin district court director Carl Delkeskamp and his wife Antonie, geb. Baring. He passed his Abitur at the Joachim-Friedrich-Gymnasium in 1921 and began after his first practical training in agriculture 1921-1924 in the Neumark then his studies of agricultural sciences in 1924 at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . He completed his studies in Berlin in 1927 as a qualified farmer and received his doctorate there in 1930 with a dissertation on the grove beetle, first described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 , to obtain a Dr. agr. Also in 1930 he first became a research assistant, then in 1942 custodian in the beetle department of the Zoological Museum of the Humboldt University , where he was the librarian of the museum library from 1955 to 1961. The construction of the Wall in 1961 led Delkeskamp, ​​who lives in West Berlin , to retirement at the museum in the eastern part of the city. Delkeskamp edited the list of soft beetles in Wilhelm Junks "Bibliographia Coleopterologica" (1912-1935) and continued it in 1977. He published numerous papers on his subject internationally. He spent his retirement in Kassel . He was married and had two daughters. Delkeskamp was buried in the family grave at the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover .

Delkeskamp was treasurer from 1930 to 1939 and librarian from 1945 to 1961 of the German Entomological Society . His publications as a student historian and archivist of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen are in the Institute for University Studies in Würzburg.

The Canthariden genus Delkeskampia and numerous species were named after him.

Fonts

• Biological studies on Carabus nemoralis garbage. In: Journal for Morphology and Ecology of Animals , Volume 19, Springer, Berlin 1930 (dissertation)
• together with Wilhelm Junk and Sigmund Schenkling : Coleopterorum catalogus. Cantharidae , Junk, Berlin 1939
• The erotylid yield of Dr. A. de Barros Machado from Angola, revision of 2 subgenera and list of the erotylid species from Angola: Museu do Dundo. Lisboa [Lisbon]: Companhia de diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1952
• The Dacninae of the most recent collection yields from the Belgian Congo (Col. Erotylidae): 15. Contribution to the knowledge of the erotylids Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1954
• Revision of the African genus Palaeolybas Crotch (Coleoptera Erotylidae): 17. Contribution to the knowledge of the erotylids. Tervuren: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1956
• New erotylids from the British Museum. 21. Contribution to the knowledge of the erotylids, Col., etc , London 1957
• Contributions to the knowledge of the insect fauna of Bolivia. Coleoptera 2. Erotylidae. 22. Contribution to the knowledge of the Erotylidae (Col) , Munich 1957
• Erotyliden-yield from Angola. 2nd and 3rd contribution on the knowledge of the erotylids: subsídios para o estudo da biologia na Lunda. Companhia dos Diamantes de Angola, Lisboa 1957
• Erotylidae subfam , 1963
• Ostracodes , 1964
• together with Walter Douglas Hincks: Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Cantharidae. , Junk, s-Gravenhage 1977, ISBN 9061934338
• together with Walter Douglas Hincks: Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Erotylidae of Africa and Madagascar / , Junk, 's-Gravenhage 1981, ISBN 9061934354

literature

• Wilhelm Joppich: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen Volume 2 1900-2002 , Göttingen 2002, p. 61, No. 1003

Web links

• Kurt Delkescamp at Worldcat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 59 , 945.
2. ↑ corpsarchive.de
3. ↑ globalnames.org