Wilhelm Steudel

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Wilhelm Steudel (1829–1903)
Rhigognostis incarnatella ( Steudel , 1873)

Wilhelm Steudel (born April 4, 1829 in Oberurbach , † July 23, 1903 in Stuttgart ) was a German physician and entomologist .

Life

Wilhelm Steudel was the son of pastor Joseph Albrecht Steudel, who died as dean in Brackenheim around 1834 . The doctor and botanist Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was his uncle. Wilhelm Steudel, who still had 5 siblings, grew up with the Ludwig Uhland foster family in Tübingen after the early death of his father , attended the Tübingen Lyceum and in 1848 moved to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen to study medicine. After further study stays in Würzburg, Prague, Vienna and Paris, he was awarded a Dr. doctorate in medicine and worked from 1855 as a chief surgeon in Böblingen . In 1862 the family moved to Kochendorf , where in 1869 he succeeded in filling the city director's doctor's position in Stuttgart, which he subsequently filled up to 1899. In 1888 Wilhelm Steudel was appointed to the medical council.

At the suggestion of the politician and entomologist Carl von Heyden , Wilhelm Steudel began to work scientifically with butterflies from around 1860 . He created extensive collections of his own, but also regularly participated in the collection of the Association for Patriotic Natural History with extensive collection material. He is the first to describe Plutella incarnatella Steudel , 1873, a butterfly from the family of the veil and half moths (Plutellidae), which is currently assigned to the taxon Rhigognostis incarnatella ( Steudel , 1873) after a change of genus .

Wilhelm Steudel was a member of the Entomological Association in Stettin founded in 1837, became a member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg in 1859 and was a founding member, chairman and most recently honorary chairman of the Stuttgart Entomological Association.

On September 11, 1884, he was registered under the registration number. In 2494 elected member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the Zoology and Anatomy Section .

His extensive collection of small butterflies became the property of the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Stuttgart after his death . The exotics of its large butterflies were added to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Natural History.

He was married to Marie Caroline, nee Walther, the daughter of a Böblingen senior official. The couple had 3 sons, one of whom died, and 1 daughter.

Fonts

  • A new plutella . In: Entomologische Zeitung Stettin , 34, 1873, pp. 340–342 ( digitized version )
  • with Ernst August Hofmann: Directory of small butterflies from Württemberg . In: Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg, 38, 1882, pp. 143–262 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Carl Benjamin Klunzinger : In memory of † Dr. med. Wilhelm Steudel . In: Annuals of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg, 60, Carl Grüninger, Stuttgart 1904, pp. XXXV – XLIII ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg May 1, 1888
  2. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 20th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1884, p. 150 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Steudel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberurbach
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1903
Place of death Stuttgart