Jacob Hübner

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Hubner Plate from Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch

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 confusion in classification.

1 Works
2 References
3 External Links
4 Bibliography

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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)
Jacob Hübner:Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge, 1786 und 1790
Jacob Hübner:Sammlung auserlesener Vögel und Schmetterlinge, mit ihren Namen herausgegeben auf hundert nach der Natur ausgemalten Kupfern, 1793
Jacob Hübner:Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichnis aller bisher bey den Fürbildungen zur Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen, 1822

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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.

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Biolib Stueber Scans of Nachtschmetterlinge

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Von der Natur fasziniert ... Frühe Augsburger Naturforscher und ihre Bilder (Jacob Hübner, Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm, Christian Friedrich Freyer, Johann Friedrich Leu, Jakob Friedrich Caflisch, Andreas Wiedemann), herausgegeben von Eberhard Pfeuffer, Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89639-392-0