Wilhelm Wagner (entomologist)

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Wilhelm Wagner (born March 29, 1895 in Hamburg ; † January 18, 1977 ibid) was a German entomologist and cicada expert, especially for Central European cicadas.

His main occupation was a teacher in Hamburg. His brother Eduard Wagner was also a teacher and entomologist specializing in bed bugs. From 1918 he worked on a voluntary basis in the Cicadina and Psyllina Collection of the Hamburg Zoological Museum, which he also expanded through his own collecting activities and in which he carried out the duties of curator in his specialty.

He was regarded as the leading cicada expert in Germany after Hermann Haupt and subjected the systematics of Central European cicadas in particular to a revision by also taking the internal male sexual organs into account (similar to Henri Ribaut in France).

He was an honorary doctor from the University of Hamburg.

After he went blind, he gave up his activity and bequeathed part of his collection to the Zoological Museum and Institute in Hamburg to complete it and the remainder to the professor at the University of North Carolina David A. Young . His heirs also donated his extensive special library to the Zoological Institute.

literature

  • Herbert Weidner: The entomological collections of the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg, Part XIV, Mitt. Hamb. Zoolog. Mus. Inst., Volume 74, 1977, pp. 77-138, especially p. 105 with photo (and obituary to Wagner pp. 7-10)
  • Zoological contributions, Berlin, New Series, Volume 11, 1965, pp. 1–11

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner E. Holzer, Ingrid Kammerlander, Herbert Nickel: Die Zikaden Mitteleuropas, Volume 1, Fulgomorpha, Cicadomorpha excl. Cicadellidae, Brill 2003, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1977
Place of death Hamburg