Hermann Julius Kolbe

Hermann Julius Kolbe ( born June 2, 1855 in Halle / Westphalia, † November 26, 1939 in Berlin light field ) was a German entomologist specializing in beetles.

Life and work

Hermann Julius Kolbe was the son of Heinrich Friedrich Kolbe and Sophie Amalie Pauline Cherouny. He attended the Humanistic Gymnasium in Münster and where she studied natural sciences, but had to cancel for health reasons and because of difficult family circumstances the study. From 1878-1882 he was a teacher ( according to other sources school administrators ) at the Gymnasium in Oeding / Westphalia, from 1882 assistant in the entomology department of the Zoological Museum of the University of Berlin under Prof. Dr. Wilhelm CH Peters, from 1884 to 1885 editor of the German Entomological magazine. From 1890-1921 Kolbe was curator of the zoological collection of Coleoptera / Neuroptera of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Berlin, in 1900 he received a professorship; in 1902, married Kolbe. On April 1, 1921, he was 65 years old, retired, but not published until 1938. Kolbe lived in Berlin light field, Villa Mantichora.

Kolbe made ​​several trips to various African countries. His specialties were the scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae ) and long- beetle ( Brenthidae ) and he worked all beetle groups with the exception of Staphylinoidea.

Works

  • Kolbe, HJ: Introduction to the knowledge of insects, Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin ( 1893)

Between 1883-1938 Kolbe published some 350 articles in entomology, paleontology and zoogeography including

  • Relationships among the species of Poecilaspis ( Cassididae ) together with a description of Mr. R. Rohde discovered in Paraguay new species of this genus, Ent. Msg, 13, pp. 10-13 (1887 ).
  • Contributions to the zoogeography of West Africa, together with a report on the data collected during the Loango expedition of Dr. Falkenstein at Chinchoxo Coleoptera, Nova Acta Leop. -Carol. German. Akad Naturf. , 1, 3, pp. 155-364 (1887 ). (Also published as a book by E. Bloch & Sohn, Dresden).
  • Beetles and Netzflüger East Africa. In: K. Möbius ( ed.), German East Africa. Scientific research results about the country and people of our East African protected area and the Adjacent Countries. Volume IV The animal world of East Africa and the neighboring areas. Invertebrate animals. Verlag Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen ), Berlin ( 1898)
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