Georgiy Georgiyevich Jacobson also known as Jakobson ( ru , Георгий Георгиевич Якобсон, 1871 – 23 November 1926) was a pioneering
Russia
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entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
, known especially for his 900-page book on beetles.
Biography
Jacobson was born in St Petersburg, and in 1893 he graduated from
St Petersburg University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...
's Physics and Mathematics faculty. He was a zoologist at the
Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was posted to different parts of Russia to study its insects. He published papers mainly on the systematics and zoogeography of
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
beetles.
Beetles
Jacobson's ''Beetles'' was first published in 1905 by Devriena,
St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. The eleventh and last edition appeared in 1915. Many of the fine colour plates were based on
Carl Gustav Calwer's ''Kaeferbuch'', with updates to the names of some of the beetles. This saving of effort on illustration allowed Jacobson to focus on illustrating species of beetle that had never been illustrated before. The monograph covered over 2000 species.
Works
Jacobson is best known as the author of the magisterial 900-page ''Beetles of Russia, Western Europe and neighbouring countries'' (1905-1915), and co-author, with
Valentin Lvovich Bianchi
Valentin Lvovich Bianchi (Russian: Валенти́н Льво́вич Биа́нки; 18 February 1857 – 10 January 1920) was a Russian ornithologist. He is honoured in the common and scientific names of Bianchi's warbler (''Seicercus valenti ...
, of ''Orthoptera and Pseudoneuroptera of the Russian Empire'' (1905).
His other works include the following:
* ''Beitrag zur Systematik der Geotrypini'' (Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, XXVI, 1892)
* ''Essay on the Tunicata of the White Sea'' (Tr. Spb. Common. Est., XXIII, 1892)
* ''Chrysomelidae palaearcticae novae'' (Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, XXVIII, 1894; XXIX, 1895 Ezheg. Zool. Museum, II, 1897; III, 1898; IV, 1899)
* ''Über den äusseren Bau flügelloser Käfer'' (Ezheg. Zool. Museum, IV, 1899)
* ''Symbola ad cognitionem faunae Rossiae asiaticae'' (Finsk. Vet.-Soc. F ö rh., XLIII, 1901)
* ''Zoological Research in the New World'' (Notes of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1898)
* ''Termites of Russia'' (Tr. Bureau of Entomology, IV, 1904)
His zoological author abbreviation is Jakobson.
References
External links
Biography*
1871 births
1926 deaths
Russian entomologists
Soviet entomologists
Coleopterists
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