Karl Grünberg (died 1921, in

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

) was a German

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

specialising in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

. Karl Grünberg was a professor at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

. He wrote the Palearctic

Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, es ...

section of

Adalbert Seitz Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz, (24 February 1860 in Mainz – 5 March 1938 in Darmstadt) was a German physician and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a director of the Frankfurt zoo from 1893 to 1908 and is best known for editi ...

's ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' and named several African butterflies.

Works

Partial list *Grunberg, K. 1907 Zwei neue Hesperiiden aus Deutsch-Ostafrika. (Lep.). ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 1907:577-578. *Grunberg, K. 1908 Neue Lepidopteren aus Uganda. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1908:50-62. *Grunberg, K. 1910 Zur Kenntnis der Lepidopteren-Fauna der Sesse-Innseln im Victoria-Nyanza. ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1910:146-181. *Grunberg, K. 1910 Neue westafrikanische Lepidopteren. Gesammelt von Herrn Gunter Tessman in Sud-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea (Uellegebiet). ''Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin'' 1910:469-480. *Grunberg, K. 1910 Lepidoptera. ''Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena'' 16:91-146. *Grunberg, K. 1910 Eine Lepidopteren-Ausbeuk vom Kiwu-See. ''Societas Entomologica'' 24:145-148. *Grunberg, K. 1912 Rhopalocera in ''Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition'' 1907-1908. 3(Zoology 1):505-560.

References

* Groll, E. K. (Hrsg.): Biografien der Entomologen der Welt: Datenbank. Version 4.15: Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 201

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