Franz Hermann Rolle (17 September 1864
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...
– 12 May 1929,
Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German
natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...
dealer and
malacologist
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
.
From 1889, Rolle was a natural history dealer in Berlin trading as Institute Kosmos. He sold bird and insect specimens to many museums and private collectors especially to
Alexander Koenig
Alexander Ferdinand Koenig (20 February 1858 – 16 July 1940) was a German natural history, naturalist and zoologist. Making use of the family wealth earned from the sugar business, he went on collection expeditions and founded what is now k ...
. When he retired his entomological collections were sold to
Eugène Le Moult, Paris in 1921/22.
References
*Gebhardt L., 1970 ''Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas.'' Bd. 2. J. Orn. 111, Sh. 110 ff.
*Hölzinger J., ''Die Vögel Baden-Württembergs''. Bd. 1. Gefährdung und Schutz, Teil 3. Artenschutzrecht. Historischer Teil. Franz Hermann Roll. Die Vögel Baden Württembergs. 1.3, 1578 ff.
*Horn W. & Kahle I., 1935 ''Über entomologische Sammlungen, Entomologen & Entomo-Museologie''. Teil I-III. Berlin-Dahlem, p. 229.
*Lamas G., 1981: ''Rev. Per. Ent.'' 23,1(1980): 25–31.
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German malacologists
1929 deaths
1864 births