Berthold Neumoegen (November 19, 1845 – January 21, 1895) was a German-born American stock-market investor and amateur entomologist who specialized in the Lepidoptera. Neumoegen (German orthography: Neumögen) was born in

Frankfurt-am-Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its nam ...

where he was educated and known for his fluency in six languages. He became a member of the

New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed ...

from May 29, 1879 and was a broker and banker at M. Neumoegen Co., 40 Exchange Place. He collected butterflies and moths from around 1874 and collaborated with entomologists like Harrison Dyar and

Herman Strecker Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker (24 March 1836, in Philadelphia – 30 November 1901, in Reading, Pennsylvania) was an American entomologist specialising in butterflies and moths ( Lepidoptera). Strecker was born in Philadelphia to Ferdinand and ...

. He employed Jacob Doll to curate his private collections and to make collection on trips. He died from a long drawn tuberculosis infection (consumption). His collections were donated to the Brooklyn Museum and then transferred to the US National Collection. A species of hesperiid, ''

Agathymus neumoegeni ''Agathymus neumoegeni'' is commonly referred to as the orange giant-skipper, Neumogen's giant-skipper, Neumogen's agave borer, Neumogen's moth-skipper, and tawny giant-skipper. Physical characteristics This butterfly is typified by its orang ...

'' was named after him by Henry Edwards in 1882.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neumoegen, Berthold American entomologists 1845 births 1895 deaths Businesspeople from Frankfurt