Hermann August Hagen

Hermann August Hagen (1817,Königsberg - 1893, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. In 1845 he began to collaborate with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps .

Hagen was the son of Carl Heinrich Hagen and Anna Hagen née Linck. He became a physician graduating from the University of Königsberg in 1840. He married Johanna Maria Gerhards in 1851.Hagen emigrated to the United States of America in 1867. He developed the department of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard.He became, in 1870, the first professor of entomology in an American university He was a member of several scientific societies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and theAmerican Entomological Society.

Works

* with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps. Revue des odonates ou Libellules d'Europe. "Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liége" 6:1-408 (1850).
*Monographie der Termiten (1855-1860)
*Synopsis of North American Neuroptera (1861)See note
*Bibliotheca Entomologica (1862-1863).

Note

Some of the terms used by Hagen were not well explained. This was corrected by the Irish Entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday in 1857 (Explanation of terms used by Dr Hagen in his synopsis of the British Dragon-flies. "Entomologists' Annual" 164-15. Fig.)

External links

* [http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/Hagen.html Hermann August Hagen]
* [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Die_Neuroptera_der_Insel_Cuba Plates from Hagen's Die Neuroptera der Insel Cuba ]
* [http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/dei/php/biograph/biograph.php Obituaries, other details DEI/Zalf]