Lucas von Heyden
Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (born May 22, 1838 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 13, 1915 ibid) was a German entomologist .
Life
He was the son of Carl von Heyden and came to entomology through his father. After attending grammar school in Frankfurt, he was an officer in the Frankfurt Infantry Battalion. He became a captain and company commander; In 1884 he received the character of a major. When his unit was dissolved in 1866, with the exception of the campaign in 1870/71, he devoted himself entirely to entomology. He was Sectional for Entomology at the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . He had the title of professor.
He collected in Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia, among others.
In addition to beetles, he was particularly concerned with reticulated and hymenoptera. He completed Max Saalmüller's work on Madagascar's butterflies . From 1880 he was head of the fight against phylloxera in the Rhine and Ahr valleys.
His collection of Palearctic beetles went to the German Entomological Institute in Berlin-Dahlem, his remaining collection and the extensive entomological library to the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. In 1875 von Heyden was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
He belonged to the Frankfurt patrician association Zum Frauenstein .
He married on May 15, 1873 m Freiin Hermine Karoline Marie Therese Wilhelmine Friederike Riedesel zu Eisenbach (born June 26, 1845, † January 26, 1875), a daughter of the Hessian Colonel Giesebert Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1813-1885). The couple had a daughter who died young.
Awards
- Iron Cross (1870), 2nd class
- Order of St. John , Knight of Honor (1877)
- Order of the Red Eagle , 4th class (1890), 3rd class with the ribbon (1909)
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) , 3rd Class (1902)
Fonts
- Entomological trip to Spain and Portugal. 1870
- The Beetles from Nassau and Frankfurt am Main. 1877, 2nd edition 1904
- Catalog of the Coleopteras of Siberia. German Entomological Journal 1880 to 1881, supplements 1893, 1896, 1898
- Coleopteric fauna of Tunis and Tripoli. German Entomological Journal 1890
- Colepter fauna from the Sinai Peninsula. German Entomological Journal 1899
literature
- Edmund Reitter: A picture of the life of Professor Lucas von Heyden in Bockenheim near Frankfurt aM In: Entomologische Blätter 4 (1908), p. 85 f
- E. Brockmann, Annotated Bibliography of Faunistics of the Hessian Lepidoptera, News of the Entomological Association Apollo, Frankfurt am Main, Supplement 10, 1990
- Elli Franz: Heyden, Lucas von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser , Justus Perthes Gotha 1909, pp. 336–338 (series), continued until 1939
Web links
- Biography at the Senckenberg Society
- Wolfgang Nässig, Brief outline of the history of entomology in Frankfurt am Main, German Society for General and Applied Entomology News, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2014, pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dep. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., 17, 1891
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heyden, Lucas von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heyden, Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1915 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |