Otto Schmiedeknecht (8 September 1847

Bad Blankenburg Bad Blankenburg () is a spa town in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 6 km southwest of Rudolstadt, and 37 km southeast of Erfurt. It is most famous for being the location of the first kindergart ...

Thüringen Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

- 11 February 1936, Blankenburg) was a German

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 ...

who specialised in

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

Selected works

*1902-1936.''Opuscula Ichneumonologica''. Blankenburg in Thüringen.1902pp. *1907.''Hymenopteren Mitteleuropas''. Gustav Fischer. Jena. 804pp. *1914.''Die Schlupfwespen (Ichneumonidae) Mitteleuropas, insbesondere deutschlands''. In: Schoeder C. "Die Insekten Mitteleuropas". Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart. pp. 113–170.

References

*Möller, R. 2000: chmiedeknecht, O.''Rudolst. Naturhist. Schr.'' 10 83-90 (Under 'Opuscula ichneumonlogica) *Oehlke, J. 1968: Über den Verbleib der Hymenopteren-Typen Schmiedeknechts. ''Beitr. Ent. , Berlin'' 18: 319-327

Sources

* Stefan Vidal (2005). The history of Hymenopteran parasitoid research in Germany, ''Biological Control'', 32 : 25-33. German entomologists Hymenopterists 1847 births 1936 deaths Scientists from Thuringia People from Saalfeld-Rudolstadt {{entomologist-stub