Jacob Hübner

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Jacob Hübner (June 20, 1761 - September 13, 1826, Augsburg) was a German entomologist.

Hübner was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge (1796-1805), a founding work of Entomology. He was one of the first specialists to work on the European Lepidoptera. He described very many new species, for example Sesia bembeciformis, many of them common. Hübner's masterwork “Tentamen” was intended as a discussion document. Inadvertently published it led to subsequent nomenclatural confusion.

[edit] Works

• Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge in English “Collection” European butterflies (1796-1805)

• Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge in English, “Collection” exotic butterflies 2 vols. Augsburg (with Carl Geyer and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer) (1806-1834)

• Geschichte europaischer schmetterlinge in English, History of European butterflies (1806-1824)

• Tentamen determinsationis, digestionis atque demonationis singularum stirpium Lepidopterorum, peritis ad inspiciendum et dijudicandum communicatum in English -Preliminary examination-An attempt to fix, arrange and name the individual races of Lepidoptera to experts for examination and the expression of an opinion (1806)

[edit] References

Francis Hemming. Hübner: A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner, and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich, and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer. London: Royal Entomological Society of London, 1937. 2 volumes.