Rudolf Püngeler

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Rudolf Püngeler, lepidopterologist

Rudolf Püngeler (born February 15, 1857 in Burtscheid , † February 1, 1927 in Aachen ) was a Prussian magistrate and an internationally recognized lepidopterist .

Live and act

After high school studied Püngeler at the University of Bonn Law and member was also Corps Palatia Bonn . In the course of his professional career, he was appointed magistrate in Rheydt in 1891 . On April 1, 1895, he was transferred to Aachen as a district judge , where he took early retirement five years later due to chronic migraine attacks . Nevertheless, he subsequently took over the position of chairman of the supervisory board of Chemische Fabrik Rhenania AG and from 1907 belonged to the Club Aachener Casino .

Shaped by his father's passion for collecting butterflies , this awakened his research spirit for these animals, and especially for the large butterflies, from an early age . For this purpose, he worked part-time with the findings of the entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen , who lives in Aachen , made contacts with well-known butterfly specialists such as Erich Martin Hering , undertook several research trips at home and abroad, collected numerous copies and wrote his results in a total of 37 publications low. In the course of his investigations, he put together a butterfly collection of more than 60,000 individual specimens, of which he first described more than six new genera, mainly geometrids and noctuids , as well as nearly 300 previously unknown new species and forms, including:

  • Eupithecia poecilata (Püngeler, 1888)
  • Tancrea (Püngeler, 1898)
  • Glaucopsyche laetifica (Püngeler, 1898)
  • Pheosia buddhista (Püngeler, 1899)
  • Cupido gisela (Püngeler, 1901)
  • Parnassius boedromius (Püngeler, 1901)
  • Eupithecia thalictrata (Püngeler, 1902)
  • Lemonia pia (Püngeler, 1902)
  • Lemonia sacrosancta (Püngeler, 1902)
  • Paradrina wullschlegeli (Püngeler, 1903)
  • Heteropalpia acrosticta (Püngeler, 1904)
  • Tapiuostola son-retheli (Püngeler, 1906)
  • Coscinia libyssa (Püngeler, 1907)
  • Idaea albitorquata (Püngeler, 1909)
  • Parnassius loxias (Püngeler, 1910)
  • Chamaesphecia maurusia (Püngeler, 1912)
  • Aplocera bohatschi (Püngeler, 1914)
  • Spialia struvei (Püngeler, 1914)
  • Jaxartia (Püngeler, 1914), subgenus of the Xyleninae
  • Chondrostega osthelderi (Püngeler, 1925)

Conversely, many types and forms have been named after him, including:

  • Calipecten puengeleri (Heylaerts, Japan)
  • Colostygia puengeleri (Stertz, Zermatt, 1902)
  • Palaeomolis puengeleri (Böttcher, 1905)
  • Gortyna puengeleri (Turati, Sicily, 1909)
  • Satyrus püngeleri (A. Bang-Haas 1910)
  • Karanasa puengeleri (A. Bang-Haas, 1914)
  • Epicnaptera tremulifolia püngeleri (Schawerda, 1914)
  • Phyllodesma tremulifolia puengeleri (Schawerda, 1914)
  • Micrarctia glaphyra ev. Puengeleri (Böttcher, Ferghana)
  • Heterographa puengeleri (Bartel, Palestine)
  • Hadena armeriae puengeleri (Schawerda, 1923)
  • Sidemia puengeleri (Schawerda, 1923)
  • Node Nonagria puengeleri (Schawerda, 1923)
  • Holoarctia puengeleri (O. Bang-Haas, 1927)
  • Eupithecia puengeleri (Dietze, Caucasus)
  • Gnophos puengeleri (Bohatsch, Altai)
  • Pungeleria Rougemont
  • Hydraecia püngeleri (J. Wolfsberger, Trient, 1963)
  • Eugnorisma puengeleri (Varga & Ronkay, Afghanistan, 1987)

His extensive collection was bequeathed to the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin after his death .

family

Rudolf Püngeler, son of the Aachen commercial councilor and cloth manufacturer Peter Jakob Püngeler (1810–1886) and Mathilde Welter (1824–1904), was married to Emma Helene Honigmann (1872–1954), daughter of the mine owner Carl Eduard Honigmann (1842–1903) , Son of Eduard Honigmann , and Pauline Fellinger (1849–1880) and sister-in-law of Aachen's Vice President Robert von Görschen (1864–1936). Together they had four daughters and a son who died after a year. His eldest daughter Gerda (* 1892), married to the senior government councilor Jürgen Freiherr von Funck (1882–1963), cousin of General Hans Freiherr von Funck , was the author of the Püngeler family chronicle. The other daughters were Hilde (* 1893), married to the landlord Wilhelm Bullrich (* 1883), Gisela, married to the landlord of Gut Kalkofen, Adolf Wilhelm Zurhelle (* 1893) and Frieda (* 1909), married to the steel manufacturer Otto Poensgen (* 1896) from the old Eifeler Reidemeister family Poensgen .

Rudolf Püngeler found his final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.

The development and settlement of today's Püngelerstraße, named after the family, in the Vaalserquartier district of Aachen was only made possible by Rudolf Püngeler. The Püngeler family was closely linked to the history of some of the large farms in Vaalserquartier, Laurensberg- Orsbach and Soers .

Works (selection)

  • Diagnoses of new lepidoptera from Central Asia. In: Societas Entomologica. Bd. 13, No. 8, 1898, ZDB -ID 204549-7 , pp. 57-58, digitized .
  • New Macrolepidoptera from Central Asia. In: German entomological journal . Lepidopterological notebooks. Vol. 14, 1901, ZDB -ID 214570-4 , pp. 177-191, plates 1-3.
  • New Macrolepidoptera from Central Asia. In: Societas Entomologica. Vol. 19, No. 16, 1904, pp. 121-122, No. 17, 130-131, digitized .
  • New Palearctic Macrolepidoptera. In: German entomological journal "Iris". Vol. 19, 1906, ZDB -ID 214571-6 , pp. 78-98.
  • New Palearctic Macrolepidoptera. In: German entomological journal "Iris". Vol. 28, 1914, pp. 37-62.
  • 6. Arctia wagneri Püng. nov. spec. In: Fritz Wagner: Some old and new European-Palaearctic Lepidoptera. In: Journal of the Austrian Entomological Association Vienna. Vol. 3, p. 1918, ZDB -ID 534666-6 , p. 43-47, here p. 46, digital version (PDF; 9.1 MB).
  • Directory of the Macro-Lepidoptera found so far in the area around Aachen. In: German entomological journal "Iris". Vol. 51, 1937, pp. 1-100, (posthumously, original manuscript from 1888 to 1927).

Literature and Sources

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Püngeler: New palaearctische Macrolepidopteren . 10. "Tapiuostola sohn-retheli" German entomological journal Iris, Dresden, Volume XIX, Issue 1, 1906, p. 222.
personal data
SURNAME Püngeler, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Püngeler, Karl Julius August Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district judge and lepidopterist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Burtscheid
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1927
Place of death Aachen