Ludwig Benick

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Ludwig Benick (born November 15, 1874 in Grieben (Mecklenburg) , † March 29, 1951 in Lübeck ) was a German entomologist . Its author's abbreviation is L. Benick .

Life

Ludwig Benick (standing left) in a group picture from the school teachers' seminar in 1907

After school Benick trained as to 1895 elementary school teacher . In 1905/06 he attended courses in Leipzig to teach as a secondary school teacher. In 1907 he came to the Lübeck teachers' seminar as a seminar teacher . After its closure in 1925, he taught at the Johanneum in Lübeck from 1926 to 1934 .

Museum at the cathedral

From 1920 he was part-time curator of the Museum für Naturkunde in the Museum am Dom , today's Museum of Nature and Environment Lübeck . With a foreign exchange donation from Clara Lagerlöf from New York City , the daughter of the custodian Heinrich Lenz , who died in 1913 , Benick was able to reorganize Lübeck's natural history during the inflationary period . From 1934 onwards, Benick was head of the state agency for the preservation of natural monuments and built up the prehistoric department of the museum. He was a member of the Lübeck Monument Council and chairman of the Society for Homeland Security, which was shaped by Wilhelm Ohnesorge as a subsidiary of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities until 1936 .

During the war he coordinated the silk construction in the central school garden and the school gardens of the individual Lübeck schools for the extraction of natural silk for armaments.

In the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 , the museum and with it a large part of his scientific life's work was completely destroyed. After the end of the war in 1945, Benick began to rebuild the collections, also with the help of friendly natural history museums and collections. His hope for a quick reconstruction of the museum was not fulfilled. The ruins of the neo-Gothic building were torn down, and the new Museum for Nature and Environment Lübeck could not be opened until the 1960s under Gotthilft von Studnitz .

Recently lived Benick in Viktoriastraße 7 in St. Jürgen , of the outer district of Domgemeinde belonging district , and was in the cemetery at its chapel buried. The Behnhaus owns a portrait of Benick, which was painted by Gertrud Siemers in 1945 .

Working as an entomologist

Benick started collecting and describing bugs early on. He was considered a leading specialist in the Staphilinidae ( short-winged ) subfamilies Steninae , Megalopsidiinae and Euaesthetinae (Coleoptera).

To his 72nd birthday in 1946 awarded him the University of Kiel her an honorary doctorate .

His son Georg Benick (1901–1992) continued his research.

Benick's collection of Coleoptera, specifically Staphylinidae, came to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . The regional part later went to the Natural History Museum in Lübeck together with the son's collection.

Initial descriptions

Benick described 389 species, mostly Stenus species, and 3 genera Staphylinidae.

  • Stenus trisulcatus L. Benick, 1913
  • Stenus velebiticus L. Benick, 1915
  • Stenus kuennemanni L.Benick, 1917
  • Stenus proprius L.Benick, 1921
  • Stenus chobauti L.Benick, 1927
  • Stenus connatus L. Benick, 1929
  • Stenus cirrus L. Benick, 1940
  • Bledius pechlaneri L.Benick, 1943

Fonts

  • About some Brazilian aulacotrachelines and stones (Col., Staph.). Helsingfors: Centraltryckeri 1920
  • Steninae (Staphyl.) Troppau: E. Reitters Nachf. 1929 (= identification tables of the European Coleopteras 96)
  • Stenines of Morocco and Spain. Helsingfors: Akad. Buchh. / Berlin: Friedländer 1932 (= Commentationes biologicae // Societas scientiarum Fennica 3, 10)
  • Nature conservation in Lübeck. Lübeck: Rahtgens 1939 (= Association for Homeland Security, Lübeck: Annual Bulletin 1939)
  • (Posthumous) Mushroom Beetles and Beetle Mushrooms: Ecological and Statistical Studies. Helsinki: Academic Bookshop 1952 (= Acta zoologica Fennica 70)

literature

  • Kurt Sokolowski: Dr. hc Ludwig Benick † , in: Negotiations of the Association for Natural Science Local Research in Hamburg 31 (1954), p. XVf
  • Volker Puthz: Bibliography of the publications by Ludwig Benick (1874-1951). in: Philippia 8/1 (1997), pp. 1-12
  • Lee H. Herman: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. Part I. Introduction, History, and Biographical Sketches. In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265 (2001), p. 43 ( digitized version )

Web links

 Wikispecies: Ludwig Benick  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Behrens: 175 Years of Charitable Work , Lübeck 1964, p. 155
  2. ^ Georg Behrens: 175 years of non-profit work , Lübeck 1964, p. 54
  3. ↑ Sokolowski (lit.)
  4. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 275 ff.
  5. ↑ Sokolowski (lit.)
  6. ↑ The Lübeckers in Portrait, 1780–1930: for the 50th anniversary of the Behnhaus as a museum of modern art. Behnhaus, Lübeck 1973, p. 11
  7. ↑ Benick, Ludwig , Biographies of Entomologists of the World , accessed on July 20, 2018
  8. ^ All according to GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) , accessed on July 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Benick, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Greaves (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1951
Place of death Lübeck