August Victor Paul Blüthgen (25 July 1880 in

Mühlhausen Mühlhausen () is a town in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's Central Germany (geography)#Geographical centre, geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen ...

, Thüringen – 2 September 1967 in

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) 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 ...

who specialised in

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the 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 parasitic. Females typi ...

. He was a Doctor of Law

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and court adviser. Blüthgen described very many new species of

Aculeata Aculeata is an infraorder of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cann ...

(bees and wasps).

References

*Anonym 1955 luthgen, A. V. P.'' Neues Deutschland'' (30. 6. 1955) (Verleihung Leibniz-Medaille), Portr. Konvolut Dorn *Gusenleitner, F. 1991 ''Wildbienenforschung in Österreich''. - Kataloge des Oberösterr. Landesmuseums NF (2. Auflage) 10 103-153 103 - 153, Portrait. * Nonveiller, G. 1999 ''The Pioneers of research on the Insects of Dalmatia''. Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej : 1-390 149. *Rommel, R.-P. 2002: Biographien Nordwestthüringer Entomofaunisten. ''Veröff. Naturkundemus. Mus. Erfurt , Erfurt'' 21: 69-82 75–76.

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German entomologists Hymenopterists 1967 deaths 1880 births 20th-century German zoologists {{entomologist-stub