Hermann Schmitz (12 August 1878 in
Elberfeld
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History
The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was in a doc ...
,
Wuppertal
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– 1 September 1960 in
Bad Godesberg
Bad Godesberg ( ksh, Bad Jodesbersch) is a borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 to 1999, while Bonn was the capital of West Germany, most foreign embassies were in Bad Godesberg. Some buildings ar ...
) was a German
entomologist who specialised in
Hymenoptera and
Diptera.
His personal collection of data on flies and the literature of flies were looted by the Nazis during World War II. He was a Jesuit of German origin living in
Limburg (Netherlands)
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, at the time.
[Aalders, Gerard]
Nazi Looting: The Plunder of Dutch Jewry During the Second World War
Oxford: Berg, 2004. Page 62.
Schmitz was a
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
in
Valkenburg. He is best known for his studies of
Phoridae
The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies. Phorid flies can often be identified by their escape habit of running rapidly across a surface rather than taking to the wing. This behaviour is a source of one of thei ...
. His collections are in Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastrich
(Diptera and Hymenoptera)
Museum Koenig, Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn (world Phoridae and
Lepidoptera from the
Canary islands)
He wrote Phoridae In:
E. Lindner, Editor, ''Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region'' (Lieferung 165) 4 (33) (1951) and many scientific papers mostly on this family.
Bibliography
* Schmitz, Hermann
Phorideos ecitophilos de Minas Geraes (Dipt.) Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, 1924.
* Schmitz, Hermann
Die Phoriden: ihre natürliche Verwandtschaft, ihr System und eine Verbreitungstabelle ihrer europäischen Arten .l. .n. 1929.
* Schmitz, Hermann
Revision der Phoriden: nach forschungsgeschichtlichen und nomenklatorischen, systematischen und anatomischen biologischen und faunistischen gesichtspunkten Berlin: Ferd. Dümmler, 1929.
* Schmitz, H., and A.C. Oudemans
Die Insectenfauna der höhlen von Maastricht und Umgegend: unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dipteren S.l: s.n.], 1909.
* Schmitz, H
Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile: Based Mainly on Material in the British Museum (Natural History) Pt. VI, Pt. VI. Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile London: British Museum, 1929.
* Schmitz, Hermann
Über einige afrikanische Phoriden (Diptera) Limburg:
.n. 1940.
References
*Evenhuis, N. L. (1997). ''Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum'' (1758–1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
Dipterists
German entomologists
Hymenopterists
1878 births
1960 deaths
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