Eduard Enslin (4 October 1879

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- 26 December 1970, Rummelsberg, Nuremberg) was a

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ophthalmologist and

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He was a specialist in plant wasps (

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). His extensive collection, which includes specimens from his collection trips to southern Europe, the Mediterranean region (including Greece, Corfu, Rhodes, Palestine (1927), Egypt (1934)) and India (1929), as well as his material from Germany, is held by

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. It includes his many

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. Enslin was born in Nuremberg, the son of trader Georg Heinrich Enslin and Luise Margarete Magdalene born Stich. After studies at the gymnasium he went to study medicine at Erlangen, Greifswald and Munich receiving a ''

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'' in 1902. Even as a school student he became a member of the natural history society at Nuremberg.

Selected publications

*1913-1918. ''Die Tenthredioidea Mitteleuropas'' Berlin: Friedländer *1929. ''Beiträge zur Metamorphose der Goldwespen'' ermsdorf beiBerlin: Dr. W. Stichel *1914- 6 with

Otto Schmiedeknecht Otto Schmiedeknecht (8 September 1847 Bad Blankenburg, Thüringen- 11 February 1936, Blankenburg) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawfli ...

, Jean-Jacques Kieffer, Heinrich Friese,

Christoph Wilhelm Marcus Schroder Christoph Wilhelm Marcus Schroder (born 1871) was a German biologist and entomologist. He was a professor in Berlin. Publications Selected *with Otto Schmiedeknecht, Jean-Jacques Kieffer, Heinrich Friese, Hermann Stitz and Eduard Enslin, ''Die i ...

and

Hermann Stitz Hermann Stitz (24 December 1868-, 6 February 1947) was a German biologist and entomologist. He was a specialist in Hymenoptera especially ants and Neuroptera. He worked mainly on the collections of the Berlin Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-U ...

br>''Die insekten Mitteleuropas insbesondere Deutschlands''
Stuttgart, Franckhsche verlagshandlung *August 1950. "On the

Chrysididae Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors ...

(Hymenoptera) of Cyprus". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. London 12 (3): 656-671. *1952. "Alpine Hymenopterenfunde aus dem

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". ''Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen'', Munich. 1 (4): 31. Manfred Kraus and Stephan M. Blank (1998) give a bibliography of his 133 publications.Kraus, M. & Blank, S. M. (1998)
"Der Naturforscher Eduard Enslin (1879-1970)"
In: Taeger, A. & Blank, S. M. 1998 (Hrsg.): ''Pflanzenwespen Deutschlands (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Kommentierte Bestandsaufnahme''. Goecke & Evers, 319-330. – via ResearchGate.

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