Senckenberg German Entomological Institute
The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute is a German entomological research institute devoted to the study of insects. Founded in 1886, the institute has an extraordinary insect collection and a world-class entomological library. Since 2009, the SDEI has been part of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society.
Insect collections
The department of Phylogenetic Systematics and Taxonomy of Insects maintains about 3 million pinned insects and uncounted specimens in the wet collection, among others the collections of:- Rudolf von Bennigsen
- Karl Bleyl
- Carl Julius Bernhard Börner
- Peter Friedrich Bouché
- Gustav Breddin
- Adolf Willy Lothar Dieckmann
- Karl Friedrich Ermisch
- Karl Flach
- Gerrit Friese
- Johann Georg Haag-Rutenberg
- Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden
- Walther Hermann Richard Horn
- Carl Friedrich Ketel
- Hermann Kläger
- Hermann Albert Friedrich Köller
- Wilhelm Koltze
- Ernst Gustav Kraatz
- Friedrich Wilhelm Konow
- Karl Friedrich Lange
- Otto Leonhard
- Karl Wilhelm Letzner
- Bernhardt Lichtwardt
- Walter Liebmann
- Gustav Adolf Lohse
- Axel Leonard Melander
- Julius Melzer
- Wilhelm Mink
- Karl-Heinz Mohr
- Julius Neresheimer
- Heinrich von Oettingen
- Lorenz Oldenberg
- Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
- Gustav Paganetti-Hummler
- Paul Pape
- Helmuth Patzak
- Ernst Pietsch
- Karl Ritter
- William Henry Rolph
- Arthur Leopold Albert Maria Rottenberg
- Max Saalmüller
- Johann Christian Rudolf Sachse
- Hans Sauter
- Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss
- Karl Gotthilf Schenkling
- Sigmund Schenkling
Entomological Information Center
The Entomology Information Center keeps:- 24,000 monographies, anthologies
- 48,000 volumes of periodicals of about 2.400 journals and series, among them 850 current serial journals
- 118,000 separata
- 1,500 further media
- 120 bequests of entomologists
- A collection of 6,000 portraits including photographs, engravings, prints, and press clippings of entomologists
- A collection of objects related to entomology, such as postcards, small figurines, or costume jewellery