Organization:German Entomological Institute

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Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg, a small town in Märkisch-Oderland

The German Entomological Institute (German: Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, or DEI) is a German entomological research institute devoted to the study of insects. Founded in 1886, the institute has an extraordinary insect collection and a world-class entomological library. Since 2009, the SDEI has been part of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Insect collections

The department of Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects[1] maintains about 3 million pinned insects and uncounted specimens in the wet collection, among others the collections of:

  • Rudolf von Bennigsen (1824-1902)
  • Karl Bleyl (1908-1995)
  • Carl Julius Bernhard Börner (1880-1953)
  • Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856)
  • Gustav Breddin (1864-1909)
  • Adolf Willy Lothar Dieckmann (1920-1990)
  • Karl Friedrich Ermisch (1898-1970)
  • Karl Flach (1856-1920)
  • Gerrit Friese (1931-1990)
  • Johann Georg Haag-Rutenberg (1830-1880)
  • Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (1838-1915)
  • Walther Hermann Richard Horn (1871-1939)
  • Carl Friedrich Ketel (1861-1906)
  • Hermann Kläger (1847-1923)
  • Hermann Albert Friedrich Köller (1885-1968)
  • Wilhelm Koltze (1839-1914)
  • Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831-1909)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842-1908)
  • Karl Friedrich Lange (1844-1913)
  • Otto Leonhard (1853-1929)
  • Karl Wilhelm Letzner (1812-1889)
  • Bernhardt Lichtwardt (1857-1943)
  • Walter Liebmann (1885-1974)
  • Gustav Adolf Lohse (1910-1994)
  • Axel Leonard Melander (1878-1962)
  • Julius Melzer (1878-1934)
  • Wilhelm Mink (1807-1883)
  • Karl-Heinz Mohr (1925-1989)
  • Julius Neresheimer (1880-1943)
  • Heinrich von Oettingen (1878-1956)
  • Lorenz Oldenberg (1863-1931)
  • Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1828-1906)
  • Gustav Paganetti-Hummler (1871-1949)
  • Paul Pape (1859-1933)
  • Helmuth Patzak (1927-1988)
  • Ernst Pietsch (1872-1930)
  • Karl Ritter (1909-1998)
  • William Henry Rolph (1847-1883)
  • Arthur Leopold Albert Maria Rottenberg (1843-1875)
  • Max Saalmüller (1832-1890)
  • Johann Christian Rudolf Sachse (1802-1891)
  • Hans Sauter (1871-1948)
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss (1833-1890)
  • Karl Gotthilf Schenkling (1835-1911)
  • Sigmund Schenkling (1865-1946)

Entomological Information Center

The Entomology Information Center[2] keeps:

  • 24,000 monographies, anthologies
  • 48,000 volumes of periodicals of about 2.400 journals and series (titles), among them 850 current serial journals
  • 118,000 separata
  • 1,500 further media (maps, films, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, VHS)

The archives are also associated here, which comprise:

  • 120 bequests of entomologists
  • a collection of 6000 portraits including photographs, engravings, prints, and press clippings of entomologists
  • a collection of objects related to entomology, such as postcards, small figurines, or costume jewellery

See also

  • Entomological Society of Stettin

External links

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