Max Hagedorn

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Heinrich Julius Max Hagedorn (born November 28, 1852 in Rathsthal , Gerdauen district , † December 15, 1914 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and entomologist .

Life

Hagedorn was the son of a landowner in Rathsthal near Königsberg . In 1872 he passed his Abitur at the old town high school in Königsberg and then began to study medicine at the university there. In the winter semester of 1872/73 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . After graduating, he worked as a general practitioner in Mohrungen and worked as a ship's doctor for a few years before opening a special practice for ear, nose and throat medicine in Hamburg in 1888 . Hagedorn was a member of the board of the Hamburg Medical Association for several years .

He devoted himself to entomology, with the bark beetles being his main interest . He published numerous articles, including papers on the Ipidae for the Coleopterorum Catalogus and the Genera Insectorum . He donated his collection of bark beetles, with over 400 species in over 60 genera and around 300 other specimens and fragments, to the Natural History Museum in Hamburg . After his death, the museum received his further entomological estate.

From 1892 to 1898 Hagedorn was a member of the Hamburg citizenship and belonged to the parliamentary group of the Left. From around 1899 he was a member of the Association for Scientific Entertainment in Hamburg.

literature

  • L. Reh: Dr. Max Hagedorn. † December 15, 1914 . In: R. Timm (ed.): Negotiations of the association for natural science. Entertainment about Hamburg. 1914-1919 . XVI. Tape. L. Friederichsen & Co, Hamburg 1920, p. LIX ff .
  • From the entomological world . In: German Entomological Journal . Jhg. 1915. Nicolaische Verlags-Buchhandlung, Berlin 1915, p. 213 ( online ).

Web links

  • Eckhard K. Groll: Julius Max Hagedorn. In: Biographies of Entomologists of the World. Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, 2013, accessed on December 6, 2015 (with portrait).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Babucke: In memory of the move of the old town high school in Königsberg, Pr. To the new school building on April 9, 1889 . Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, Königsberg 1889, p. 30 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hawthorn, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagedorn, Heinrich Julius Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Rathsthal , Gerdauen district
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1914
Place of death Hamburg