German Entomological Institute

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.

## Contents

* 1 Insect collections
* 2 Entomological Information Center
* 3 See also
* 4 External links
* 5 References

## 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

* Official website
* DEZ History
* Documents and clippings about German Entomological Institute in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

## References

1. ↑ Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects
2. ↑ Entomology Information Center

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