Max Liebke

Max Liebke
Born(1892-02-12)12 February 1892
Hamburg, Germany[1][2]
Died1945 (aged 52–53)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

Max Liebke (12 February 1892 – 1945)[2][3] was a German entomologist, who researched ground beetles. He wrote in a journal called Entomologischer Anzeiger, describing beetles that he discovered.

Liebke was born Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke in Hamburg on 12 February 1892.[3] His parents were Ernst August Julius Liebke and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Liebke (nee Wenk).[3]

On 21 February 1914 in Hamburg, 22 year old Liebke married 21 year old Minna Caroline Marie Antonie Elisabeth Amthor.[4] Both are described as Lutherans on their marriage record.[4]

Between 1927 and 1940, Liebke authored at least 33 scientific papers, mainly about Carabidae.[5]

Liebke was listed as missing at Posen [Poznań, Poland] in 1944.[6] Liebke's birth registration document bears an official stamp noting that he was formally declared dead on 11 October 1951, but is considered to have been dead by the end of 1945.[3]

In 1932 Liebke gifted 5,344 beetle specimens to the Zoological Museum in Hamburg.[6] Liebke's carabidae collection was partially destroyed during World War II, but some specimens survived and were moved to the collections of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.[7] Liebke also described species from material loaned to him by other scientists, including beetles later returned to Ferdinand Nevermann (1881-1938) whose collection is now at the Smithsonian Museum.[7]

  1. ^ Liebke, Max (1928). "Laufkäfer-Studien V. – Entomologischer Anzeiger" [Ground Beetle Studies 5 – Entomological Gazette] (PDF) (in German). 8: 215–218. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Biographies of the Entomologists of the World". senckenberg.de (in German). Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901 for Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Hamburg, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1920 for Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  5. ^ Blackwelder, Richard E (1957). "Bibliography: Liebke, Max (1892-)". United States National Museum Bulletin: Checklist of the Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. 185 (6): 1180–1181 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ a b Weidner, Herbert (1967). Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg (in German). Kommissionsverlag Cram, De Gruyter. p. 264.
  7. ^ a b Erwin, Terry L (1975). "The Ground Beetle Types of Max Liebke in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (Coleoptera: Carabidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 29 (4): 267–268. doi:10.5962/p.372671. JSTOR 3999667 – via JSTOR.