- Source: Senckenberg German Entomological Institute
The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (German: Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut; SDEI 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 Nature Research Society.
Insect collections
The department of Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects 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 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 6,000 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
Official website
DEZ History
Documents and clippings about Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW