Michael Bach (entomologist)

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Michael Bach (* 19th March 1808 in Boppard , † 17th April 1878 ) was a German teacher, botanist and entomologist (Entomologist). Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Bach ".

Bach lost his father, who was a teacher, at an early age and had to quickly find a job to support the family. From 1824 to 1826 he attended the teachers 'college in Brühl in the Rhineland and was a teacher at a girls' school in Boppard from 1827 and at the higher city school from 1839. In order to stay close to his old mother, he turned down an offer at the noble grammar school in Bedburg . In 1868 he became a teacher at the newly founded teachers' college in Boppard. In 1876 he was retired.

He initially dealt with botany, in which he trained himself further, and in 1834 was with Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck and other founders of a botanical association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. In 1842 he and other members published a Prodromus of the Flora of the Prussian Rhineland. In the late 1830s, he also turned to entomology, especially beetles. In 1841 he printed a list of 666 beetles in the vicinity of Boppard for his students. Similar catalogs on conchylia and butterflies (except for small butterflies) in the area followed.

Although he worked mostly alone and with insufficient resources (he could not afford expensive literature), he found recognition in scientific circles. In 1863 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn . From August 1834 he was a member of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine , the later Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, and was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1864 .

The whereabouts of his collection is unknown. Information that she was in Marburg at the Zoological Museum was not confirmed.

Fonts

  • Guide to studying beetles , Koblenz: Jakob Hölscher 1847
  • The beetle fauna of northern and central Germany , 4 volumes, Koblenz: Jakob Hölscher 1849 to 1860
    • 1. Delivery as beetle fauna of the Prussian Rhineland with special consideration of Northern and Central Germany , 1849, 2. Delivery 1851 (with supplement 1867), 3. Delivery (Volume 2) 1852, 4. Delivery 1854 (with supplement 1867), Delivery 5 (Volume 3) 1856, delivery 6 1859 (with addendum 1867), delivery 7 (volume 4) 1860 (with addendum 1867)
  • The wonders of the insect world: the insect, its life and work in the household of nature, represented in a common sense ; with 82 illustrations in woodcut, Münster 1877, digitized, Münster

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia 1844, pp. 13-16
  2. ↑ Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia 1844, pp. 47–66
  3. ^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836
  4. ^ Directory of the members of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia (January 1, 1854), p. 7 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  6. ↑ Member entry by Michael Bach (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 27, 2016.
  7. ^ Supplements to volume 1, 2 in Stettiner Entomological Journal 1856
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, malacologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1878
Place of death Boppard