Otto Schmiedeknecht
Otto schmiedeknecht (* 8. September 1847 in Blankenburg , † 11. February 1936 in Bad Blankenburg ) was a German entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera), especially parasitic wasps .
Life
His father Johann Friedrich Schmiedeknecht was the school principal in Bad Blankenburg and took him on excursions in the natural history. After his father was transferred, he grew up in Stadtilm and went to high school in Rudolstadt . From 1868 he studied natural sciences and modern languages in Göttingen, interrupted by military service as a volunteer in the Franco-German War. After completing his studies, he was a teacher at the Gumperda educational institution near Kahla . Here he began to deal scientifically with hymenoptera. In 1877 he received his doctorate in Jena under Ernst Haeckel with a dissertation on bumblebees (Bombus). In 1878 he married and in 1888 he moved to Blankenburg, where he lived by selling insects. From 1903 he was curator at the Princely Natural History Cabinet in Rudolstadt (today Heidecksburg Natural History Museum) as the successor to his friend Julius Speerschneider . In the same year he received the title of professor from Prince Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
He undertook collecting trips to the Mediterranean, the Middle East (Egypt and Palestine 1890 with other entomologists) and North Africa, for example to the Balearic Islands and the island of Zante (at the invitation of Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria), and in 1902/3 to Java.
His main work is a monograph on parasitic wasps, which he published from 1902 to 1927 with the help of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture. It contains 45 issues with 5516 pages.
In 1927 he became an honorary citizen of Blankenburg. In 1880 he was a founding member of the Thuringian Entomology Association and was its chairman for a long time. He was an honorary member of the German Entomological Society and the Thuringian Forest Association.
The Rudolstadt Natural History Museum bought part of his collection in 1918/19. There are exhibits about him in the city museum in Blankenburg.
Fonts
- Apidae europaeae (The Bees of Europe) per genera, species et varietates dispositae atque descriptae, Berlin 1882 to 1884, Biodiversity Library
- Opuscula Ichneumonologica, Blankenburg in Thuringia, 45 issues, 1902 to 1936
- The Hymenoptera of Central Europe analyzed analytically according to their genera and to a large extent also according to their species, Jena: Gustav Fischer 1907, new edition 1930
- The vertebrates of Europe with consideration of the fauna of the Middle East and North Africa, Jena: G. Fischer 1906
- The ichneumon wasps (Ichneumonidae) of Central Europe, especially Germany. In: Christoph Schröder, Die Insekten Mitteleuropas, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 1914, pp. 113–170.
He also wrote the flora and fauna section in Junk`s Naturführer Thüringen (1927) and contributed to Genera Insectorum by Philogène Wytsman (Brussels 1909).
literature
- Erwin Hentschel, Günther Wagner: Dictionary of Zoology. 7th edition. Elsevier, Munich / Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8274-1479-2 , page 466, article "Schmiedeknecht, Otto Georg Ludwig"
- J. Oehlke: About the whereabouts of the Hymenoptera types Schmiedeknecht. Contribution Ent. , Berlin 18, 1968, pp. 319-327
- Stefan Vidal: The history of Hymenopteran parasitoid research in Germany, Biological Control, Volume 32, 2005, S .: 25-33
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmiedeknecht, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmiedeknecht, Otto Georg Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Blankenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1936 |
| Place of death | Bad Blankenburg |