Max Bartel (1879 – 2 July 1914,

Nürnberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...

) was a German

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Max Bartel was an insect dealer (Insektenhändler) in Berlin. He specialised in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

. He edited ''Die palaearktischen Grossschmetterlinge und ihre Naturgeschichte''. Band 1. Leipzig, (a monograph on butterflies) with Fritz Rühl and wrote pars Sesiidae in Adalbert Seitz Macrolepidoptera of the World - Bartel, M., 1912.– 24. Familie: Ageriidae (Sesiidae) pp. 375–416, pl. 51-52, In A. Seitz (Ed.), 1906-1913.''Gross-Schmett.Erde'', 2: 479 pp., 56 pls.

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*Anon. 1914: Todesanzeige. Herrn Max Bartel ''Int. Ent. Z.'', Guben 8 (15): 79-82 German lepidopterists 1914 deaths 1879 births Date of birth missing 19th-century German zoologists 20th-century German zoologists {{entomologist-stub