Wilhelm Gustav Stierlin (9 November 1821 – 28 March 1907) was a Swiss physician and entomologist. He specialized in the beetles and was a specialist on the European weevils of the genus ''Otiorhynchus''.

Life and work

Stierlin was born in

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; ; ; ; ), historically known in English as Shaffhouse, is a list of towns in Switzerland, town with historic roots, a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of Schaffh ...

, the son of George Michael and Mathilde Zogelmann. He studied medicine at Bonn from 1841 and graduated in 1845 after which he worked in Vienna and Paris. In 1847 he served as physician in the

Sonderbund War The Sonderbund War (, , ) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons. It ensued after seven Catholic cantons formed the ("separate alliance") in 1845 to protect their interests against ...

and from 1850 he practiced in Schaffhausen as the district physician. He met

Gustav Kraatz Ernst Gustav Kraatz (13 March 1831 – 2 November 1909) was a German entomologist. He collected and described numerous beetles including Staphylinidae. Kraatz was a founding member of the Berlin Entomological Club (Berliner Entomologischer Verein) ...

who inspired him into entomology. He made trips with others like Bischoff-Ehinger and Gautard to collect insects across Europe. From 1862 he edited the newsletter of the Swiss entomological society. He was the founding president of the Schaffhausen nature research society and directed the Schaffhausen natural history museum from 1878. His major works included:
Revision der europäischen Otiorhynchus-arten
(1861) * Käfer der Schweiz, Fauna coleopterorum helvetica
Volume 1Volume 2
(1898-1900). * Monographie des Otiorhynchide
Volume 1Volume 2
(with Georg Seidlitz and others, 1872)

References

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