Heinrich Friese

Heinrich Friedrich August Karl Ludwig Friese was a German biologist and entomologist, a specialist of bees. Between 1883 and 1939, he described 1,989 new species and 564 new varieties or subspecies of insects, 99% of which were bees.

Major works

He has published 270 scientific articles, including a 6-volume report on European bees.

Die Apidae von Argentina nach den Reisenergebnissen der Herren A. C. Jensen-Haarup und P. Jörgensen in den Jahren 1904—1907, 1908
Die Bienen Europas. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1969
Megachilinae, Hymenoptera; Apidae. Friedländer, Berlin 1911
Die europäischen Bienen — Das Leben und Wirken unserer Blumenwespen. Eine Darstellung der Lebensweise unserer wilden wie gesellig lebenden Bienen nach eigenen Untersuchungen für Naturfreunde, Lehrer u. Zoologen. Vereinigung Wissenschaftlicher Verleger, Berlin, Leipzig 1922

Tributes

The bee genus Eufriesea is named after him, along with stingless bee genus Frieseomelitta, as well as a number of separate species such as Megachile friesei and Sphecodes friesei.