Usingen
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Coat of arms
The earliest seal whose appearance is known – there had been earlier on ...
,
Duchy of Nassau
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– 3 March 1880) was a German
entomologist
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, Professor of
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and
Museum Director
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of
Museum Wiesbaden
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. Kirschbaum specialised in
Auchenorrhyncha
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. He wrote ''Die Cicadinen der Gegend von Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a. M. nebst einer Anzahl neuer oder schwer zu unterscheidender Arten aus anderen Gegenden Europas'' (Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 21: 1-202, 1868) and many other entomological works.
His collection is in the Wiesbaden Natural History Museum. It contains his own material from Frankfurt and
Wiesbaden
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, but also an extensive material brought to him by
Carl von Heyden
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(mainly from various parts of southern Germany and
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
) and
Philipp Christoph Zeller
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). Smaller numbers of specimens were sent to him by
Carl August Dohrn
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Born at Stettin ( Szczecin, now Poland) Carl August was the son of Heinrich Dohrn, who was a wine and spice merchant, and had made the family fortune by tradi ...
(Jena),
Arnold Förster
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Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Ob ...
Gustav Mayr
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Hermann Rudolph Schaum Hermann Rudolph Schaum (29 April 1819 in Glauchau (formerly Glachau) – 15 September 1865 in Bonn) was a professor in Berlin and an entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera.
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(Berlin),
Adolph Schenck
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(Weilburg),
Carl Stål
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(Stockholm) and
Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein
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(Birkenfeld). Altogether, the collection includes 5000 individuals, 333 of which are types published in ''Die Cicadinen ... ''. This
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describes 371
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, 172 new to science.
Works
(partial list)
* (1853): ''Entomologische Miscellen''. - Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau 9: II 42-45 riginaltitel:
* (1853): ''Verzeichnis der in der Gegend von Wiesbaden, Dillenburg und Weilburg im Herzogthum Nassau aufgefundenen Sphegiden''. - Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 14: 28-31,43-49.
* (1855): ''Rhynchotographische Beiträge. I. Die Capsinen der Gegend von Wiesbaden''. - Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau 10: 161-348.
* (1855): ''Ãœber Hoplisus punctuosus Eversm. Hoplisus punctatus n. sp.''. - Wiesbaden: Stein, S. 1-7.
* (1855): ''Über Hoplisus punctuosus Eversm. u. Hoplisus punctatus n. sp''. - Moskau: Festschr. 50-jähr. Best. K. Naturf. Ges., 7 S.
* (1858): '' œber die Zertheilung der Gattung Jassus in mehrerer Gattungen - In: Bericht über die monatlichen Sitzungen der Mitglieder des Vereins''. - Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau 13: 355-358.
* (1858): ''Die Athysanus-Arten der Gegend von Wiesbaden''. - Wiesbaden: Festschrift Wett. Ges. ges. Naturk., Fünfzigjährigen Bestehens, S. 1-14.
* (1859): ''Bericht über die monatlichen Sitzungen der Mitglieder des Vereins''. - Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau 14: 450-454.
* (1863): ''Die Reptilien und Fische des Herzogthums Nassau. Verzeichniß und Bestimmungstabelle''. - Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau 17/18: 77-122.
* (1866): ''Nekrolog arl Heinrich Georg von Heyden +'. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 19: 511-.
* (1868): ''Die Cicadinen der Gegend von Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a. M. nebst einer Anzahl neuer oder schwer zu unterscheidender Arten aus anderen Gegenden Europas''. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 21: 1-202.
* (1868): ''Die Gattung Idiocerus Lew. und ihre europäischen Arten''. - Schulprogr. Königl. Gymn. 1868: 3-38, Wiesbaden.
* (1868): ''Nekrolog ohann Daniel Wilhelm Bayrhoffer +'. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 21: 429-432.
* (1872): ''Zoologische Mitteilungen: 1. Tringa maritima im Spessart''. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 25: 439-441.
* (1872): ''Zoologische Mitteilungen: 2. Über Sternschnuppengallerte''. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 25: 441-446.
* (1872): ''Zoologische Mitteilungen: 3. Über das Nest von Anthidium strigatum Latr.''. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 25: 446-447.
* ''Nekrolog arl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel +'. - Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 29/30: 432-433.