Max Saalmüller

Max Saalmüller (* November 26, 1832 in Römhild, Duchy of Saxe -Meiningen, † October 12, 1890 in Bock home near Frankfurt am Main ) was a Prussian lieutenant colonel and lepidopterist ( butterfly researcher). His official zoological author abbreviation is " Saalm. "

Life

After attending secondary school in Meiningen Saalmüller joined in 1851 as an ensign in the Prussian army in 1853 and first lieutenant. 1861 to 1862 he was in Frankfurt am Main, 1863 in Luxembourg and 1864 in Saarlouis. After the campaign against Austria in 1866 he came to Hanover and in 1870 promoted to captain. 1870/71 he made ​​the campaign against France in the Field Artillery Regiment. 8 and was awarded the Iron Cross II and I. Class, and the Ducal Saxe- Ernestine House Order. After the end of the campaign, he was transferred as a departmental commander of the Field Artillery Regiment No. 15 to Strasbourg. There he could listen to the lectures of Alexander Goette on zoology and in 1877 as a lieutenant colonel in his resignation.

Saalmüller took up his residence in Bock home near Frankfurt am Main, to devote himself to his scientific inclination. The Senckenberg Nature Research Society gave him after he had entered on December 21, 1877 working member of society again, the line about her butterfly collection. When Carl Ebenau and Anton Stumpff towards the end of 1879 brought a large collection of insects from Madagascar to Saalmüller devoted to the intensive study of the same. 1884 appeared after several smaller publications on the subject of the first volume of the Lepidoptera of Madagascar. The second band finished Lucas von Heyden, published in 1891, as Max Müller hall on October 12, 1890 died of the pneumonia.

Works

• Pictures to The armyworm by Ludwig Bechstein, 1851
• Communications on Madagascar, its lepidopteran fauna, 1878, supplements 1879
• Lepidoptera from Madagascar, 2 volumes, 1884/91