Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel

Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Pricks ( born February 16, 1862 in Wronke, Posen Province; † October 2, 1936 in Berlin light field ) was a German railway official and biologist.

Life

He attended the Royal Grammar School in Berlin, in May 1882 philosophical studies at the Royal. To enroll Friedrich- Wilhelm University. After the death of his father, he fell into financial difficulties, so that he had to stop the study in the third semester ( 1883). He then began a railway official career and in 1893 railway materials manager first class. In 1921, he became a railroad inspector general and the 1922 Head of the Materials offices in railway central office in Berlin.

Since 1892, he was regarded as a private scholar and was part-time editor of various magazines insektenkundlicher, such as 1912-1923 Publisher and editor of the journal for scientific insect biology and new contributions to the systematic entomology. In addition graver was the author of over 100 papers on insects, mainly on butterflies, and employees of larger collective works such as The Animal Kingdom, United butterflies of the earth, Nomenclator Animalium Generum et Subgenerum, generators and Insectorum Catalogus Lepidopterum. Some of his work was published by his son Wolfgang graver. Hans graver was made an honorary member of various entomological societies and received in 1927 the title of Dr. phil. hc. He described several new species of butterfly and sub-species, for example, the subspecies of the Red pumilus Apollo. As the author of such descriptions he was sometimes abbreviated as " down. ".

Hans prick was buried in the Park Cemetery Lichterfelde.

Scientific works

• Pricks, H.: 1899, Critical remarks on the Artberechtigung of butterflies I. Catonephele et Nessaea. 46 pp, 1 pl
• Pricks, H.: 1899, Parnassius apollo L. bartholomaeus nov. subsp. and monographic treatment known Palaearctic Apollo - forms. Insect Stock Exchange, 16, 294-296, 302-304, 310-314, Leipzig, Germany.
• Pricks, H.: 1901, to synonymy of some species of the genus Catonephele. 4 pp. 2 pl.
• Pricks, H.: 1903, Synonymisches directory known Eueides forms. 34 pp. 1 pl.
• Pricks, H.: 1907, Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam Papilionidae, SubF. Parnassiidae. In: Wytsman, P.: Genera Insectorum, 58, 1-60, Brussels.
• Pricks, H.: 1910-11, Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam Riodinidae. In: J. Wytsman generation Insectorum 112A 1-238. J. Wytsman Brussels.