- Jacob Hübner
Jacob Hübner (
June 20 ,1761 -September 13 ,1826 ,Augsburg ) was a Germanentomologist .Life and Importance
Hübner was the author of "Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge" (1796-1805), a founding work of
Entomology . He was one of the first specialists to work on the EuropeanLepidoptera . He described very many newspecies , for example "Sesia bembeciformis ", many of them common.He described many new genera andspecies .He was a
designer andengraver and from 1786 he worked for three years as adesigner andengraver at acotton factory in theUkraine . There he collected butterflies including descriptions and illustrations of some in "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge" (1786-1790) along with other new species from the countryside around his home in Augsberg.Hübner's masterwork “Tentamen” was intended as a discussion document. Inadvertently published, it led to subsequent confusion in classification.Also his publications were issued in sections, some after his death, often without associated publication dates.
Arthur Francis Hemming , Secretary of the International Commission of Zoologial Nomenclature, summarized all the citations of Hübner’s proposed taxonomic names, thereby constraining the possible dates of publication leading to the acceptance of Hübner's works as valid taxonomic publications.Works
* "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge"Augsberg (1786-1790)
*"Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge" in English “Collection” European butterflies (1796-1805)*"Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge" in English, “Collection” exotic butterflies 2 vols. Augsburg (with
Carl Geyer andGottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer ) (1806-1834)*"Geschichte europaischer schmetterlinge" in English, History of European butterflies (1806-1824)
* "Tentamen determinsationis, digestionis atque demonationis singularum stirpium Lepidopterorum, peritis ad inspiciendum et dijudicandum communicatum" in English -Preliminary examination-An attempt to fix, arrange and name the individual races of Lepidoptera to experts for examination and the expression of an opinion (1806)
*Jacob Hübner:"Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge", 1786 und 1790
*Jacob Hübner:"Sammlung auserlesener Vögel und Schmetterlinge, mit ihren Namen herausgegeben auf hundert nach der Natur ausgemalten Kupfern", 1793
*Jacob Hübner:"Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichnis aller bisher bey den Fürbildungen zur Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen", 1822References
Francis Hemming. "Hübner: A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner, and of the supplements thereto by
Carl Geyer , Gottfried Franz von Frölich, and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer." London: Royal Entomological Society of London, 1937. 2 volumes.External links
* [http://www.biolib.de/ Biolib Stueber] Scans of "Nachtschmetterlinge"
Bibliography
* [http://www.wissner.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_44&products_id=1183&osCsid=c080c34f140e9b1c59baeaeeb83e6e2f Von der Natur fasziniert ...] Frühe Augsburger Naturforscher und ihre Bilder (Jacob Hübner, Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm, Christian Friedrich Freyer, Johann Friedrich Leu, Jakob Friedrich Caflisch, Andreas Wiedemann), herausgegeben von Eberhard Pfeuffer, Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89639-392-0
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