Hans Bischoff
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Hans Bischoff (30 November 1889 – 18 March 1960) was a German
entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
from
Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
. He was Kustos or curator of
Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are parasitic. Females typi ...
(and
Neuropterida The Neuropterida are a clade of holometabolous insects, sometimes placed at the superorder level. The clade contains the orders Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions), Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies), and Raphidioptera (snakeflies), and includes ...
) at
Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) The Natural History Museum () is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturm ...
from 1921 until 1955. He went to the Netherlands to take the Wasmann Collection of ants during World War II in order to take them to the Berlin museum. 1234446


Selected works

*''Biologie der Hymenopteren. Eine Naturgeschichte der Hautflügler''. Biologische Studienbücher 5. VII + 598 pp., Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin(1927). *''Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Håkan Lindberg''. XV. Chrysididae, Cleptidae, Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Methocidae, Sapygidae, Sphecidae, Masaridae, Vespidae. Commentationes Biologicae, Helsingfors, 4 (3): 1-7 (1933). with Stadler H., ''Die Hautflügler des Rombergs. Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen'' (München) 3(12): 125-128 (1954).


Collections

*Personal collection of Europe ''Coleoptera'' in
Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) The Natural History Museum () is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major museums in Germany alongside Naturm ...


References

1889 births 1960 deaths German entomologists Hymenopterists Scientists from Berlin Scientists from the Province of Brandenburg 20th-century German zoologists {{entomologist-stub