Oskar Scheibel

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Oskar Scheibel ( 1881 - 1953 ; also Oscar Scheibel ) was an Austrian engineer, beetle collector and hobby entomologist who first scientifically described numerous beetle species , especially in the former Yugoslavia . Scheibel worked in Zagreb and concentrated in his scientific work mainly on the Trechinae .

life and work

Oskar Scheibel was born in Austria in 1881 and became a railway engineer. Shortly after 1900 he came to Bosnia, which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary , where he was involved in the construction of the railway. He began to be interested in the insect fauna of the region and built an extensive collection of beetle species. He collected and processed in particular species that live in caves and underground habitats. He collected some species that were new to science and that were described by coleopterologists and some of them were dedicated to him . These include, above all, the Charonites scheibeli , which he collected in a cave near Sarajevo and described by Viktor Apfelbeck in 1920, and the subspecies Antroherpon erebus scheibeli, described by René Jeannel in 1924 . In 1921 Scheibel advertised his collection, which at that time comprised around 15,000 beetles of around 6,000 species, for sale and sold them to Germany.

Anophthalmus hitleri described by Scheibel 1937 and after Adolf Hitler named

Scheibel lived in Zagreb in the 1930s and owned the exclusive rights to marketing the products of the Swiss company SIM in the Yugoslav region, which mainly manufactured engine pistons and other engine parts. In this way he was able to finance himself and his hobby. However, due to heart problems, he was unable to continue his collecting activity as he had done in the 1920s and instead offered financial assistance to entomologists interested in exploring the cave fauna. In return, he asked that the trechinae be made available to him for further scientific work. The description of Anophthalmus hitleri became particularly prominent in 1937 as a new species, which he appropriated with the species name of the then " Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler as an expression of (his) admiration". The beetle was discovered in 1933 in caves in what was then Yugoslavia and given to him for testing.

In addition to Anophthalmus hitleri , Scheibel described numerous other species, such as Adriaphaenops pretneri 1935, Adriaphaenops staudacheri 1939, Neotrechus winneguthi 1937 and several species of the genera Duvalius ( Duvalius comes 1934). The Scheibels collection is kept in the Natural History Museum Basel as part of the G. Frey collection.

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b c d e G. Nonveiller: The Pioneers of the research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej, 1999; Pp. 105-106.
  2. ↑ a b Jiří Janák: Une nouvelle espèce de Neotrechus J. Müller de Biokovo planina et de nouvelles données du genre de Croatie (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Studies and reports of District Museum Prague-East, Taxonomical Series 5 (1-2), 2009; Pp. 159-180.
  3. ↑ Viktor Apfelbeck : To the knowledge of the Balkan fauna (Coleoptera). II. On the cave fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. Critical comments and corrections along with descriptions of new types and forms. Coleopterological Review VIII, 1920; Pp. 89-93. ( Full text ).
  4. ^ Oscar Scheibel: A new anophthalmos from Yugoslavia. Entomologische Blätter (Berlin) 33 (6): pp. 438-440.
  5. ↑ History: The Curse of the Name ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalgeographic.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , National Geographic Germany, September 1, 2006
  6. ↑ Oscar Scheibel: A new Adriaphaenops and a new Pterostichus from Yugoslavia. (PDF; 2.1 MB) Koleopterologische Rundschau 21, 1935: pp. 34–38.
  7. ↑ Oscar Scheibel: A new Adriaphaenops from Yugoslavia. (PDF; 381 kB) Announcements of the Munich Entomological Society 29, 1939: pp. 372–374.
  8. ↑ Oscar Scheibel: New Trechini from Yugoslavia and Albania along with comments on known species. Koleopterologische Rundschau 23, 1937; Pp. 11-22.
personal data
SURNAME Scheibel, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheibel, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer, beetle collector and hobby entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
DATE OF DEATH 1953