Hans Franz Paul Hedicke (21 August 1891 – 9 March 1949) was a

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entomologist.

Background

Hedicke was born in Magdeburg,

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in 1891. From 1923 to 1945 he was a lecturer at the

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. Hedicke was an editor of the ''

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'' from 1921 to 1930. Hedicke died in

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in 1949.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hedicke, Hans 1891 births 1949 deaths German entomologists 20th-century German zoologists