Hermann Julius Kolbe
Encyclopedia
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
entomologist
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...
from Halle, Westphalia
Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia
Halle is a town in the German Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the district of Gütersloh....
. He was curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum from 1890 until 1921 specialising in Coleoptera
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
, Psocoptera
Psocoptera
Psocoptera are an order of insects that are commonly known as booklice, barklice or barkflies. They first appeared in the Permian period, 295–248 million years ago. They are often regarded as the most primitive of the hemipteroids. Their name originates from the Greek word psokos meaning...
and the “Neuroptera
Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order contains some 6,010 species...
”. He died in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
-Lichterfelde.
Works
Partial list- Beziehungen unter der Arten von Poecilaspis (Cassididae) nebst Beschreibung einer von Herrn R. Rohde in Paraguay endeckten neuen Species dieser Gattung. Ent. Nachr., 13: 10-13 (1887).
- Beiträge zur Zoogeographie Westafrikas nebst einem Bericht über die während der Loango-Expedition von Herrn Dr. Falkenstein bei Chinchoxo gesammelten Coleoptera. Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. Deutsch. Akad. Naturf., 1, 3: 155-364 + 3 pl.(1887). (Also published as a book by E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden).
- Eine von Herrn Dr. med. Drake in Paraguay entdeckte neue Canistra-art. Ent. Nachr., 13: 27 (1887).
- Käfer und Netzflüger Ost-Afrikas. In: K. Möbius (ed.), Deutsch-Ost-Afrika. Wissenschaftliche Forschungsresultate über Land und Leute unseres ostafrikanischen Schutzgebietes und der Angrenzenden Lä nder. Band IV. Die Thierwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete. Wirbellose Thiere. Verlag Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin (1898).
Collections
- Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
- Westfälische Museum für NaturkundeWestfälische Museum für NaturkundeThe Westfälische Museum für Naturkunde is a natural history museum in Münster.- External links :* Homepage, German only...
- Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław