Georg Karl Maria von Seidlitz (June 19, 1840, St. Petersburg – July 15, 1917, Irschenhausen near Munich) was a German doctor and entomologist. He was a zoology teacher in Dorpat (1868–77), then in Königsberg, (1877–88), where he became a fishery expert. He later specialised in Coleoptera, describing many new species and he wrote Fauna Baltica. Die Käfer (Coleoptera) der Ostseeprovinzen Russlands. Dorpat, 1875. His general beetle collection is conserved in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, his Baltic Coleoptera are in the zoology museum in Kaliningrad.
Von Seidlitz was an early supporter of Darwinism in continental Europe.Buchanan, Brett. (2008). Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. State University of New York Press. p. 9.
Selected publications
Die Darwin'sche Theorie: Elf Vorlesungen über die Entstehung der Thiere und Planzen durch Naturzüchtung (1871)
References
Klausnitzer, B. 2003: Der Beitrag österreichischer Entomologen zur Erforschung der Marienkäfer (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Denisia 8 91-120, 30 Abb. 92 Scherer, G. 1992: Die Sektion Coleoptera der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Spixiana Suppl. 17 61-71, 5 Abb. 66 (Sammlung)
External links
History of Zoology in Königsberg