Senckenberg German Entomological Institute



The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut; SDEI or DEI) 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 (1824-1902)
 * Karl Bleyl (1908-1995)
 * Carl Julius Bernhard Börner (1880-1953)
 * Peter Friedrich Bouché (1784-1856)
 * Gustav Breddin (1864-1909)
 * Adolf Willy Lothar Dieckmann (1920-1990)
 * Karl Friedrich Ermisch (1898-1970)
 * Karl Flach (1856-1920)
 * Gerrit Friese (1931-1990)
 * Johann Georg Haag-Rutenberg (1830-1880)
 * Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (1838-1915)
 * Walther Hermann Richard Horn (1871-1939)
 * Carl Friedrich Ketel (1861-1906)
 * Hermann Kläger (1847-1923)
 * Hermann Albert Friedrich Köller (1885-1968)
 * Wilhelm Koltze (1839-1914)
 * Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831-1909)
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842-1908)
 * Karl Friedrich Lange (1844-1913)
 * Otto Leonhard (1853-1929)
 * Karl Wilhelm Letzner (1812-1889)
 * Bernhardt Lichtwardt (1857-1943)
 * Walter Liebmann (1885-1974)
 * Gustav Adolf Lohse (1910-1994)
 * Axel Leonard Melander (1878-1962)
 * Julius Melzer (1878-1934)
 * Wilhelm Mink (1807-1883)
 * Karl-Heinz Mohr (1925-1989)
 * Julius Neresheimer (1880-1943)
 * Heinrich von Oettingen (1878-1956)
 * Lorenz Oldenberg (1863-1931)
 * Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1828-1906)
 * Gustav Paganetti-Hummler (1871-1949)
 * Paul Pape (1859-1933)
 * Helmuth Patzak (1927-1988)
 * Ernst Pietsch (1872-1930)
 * Karl Ritter (1909-1998)
 * William Henry Rolph (1847-1883)
 * Arthur Leopold Albert Maria Rottenberg (1843-1875)
 * Max Saalmüller (1832-1890)
 * Johann Christian Rudolf Sachse (1802-1891)
 * Hans Sauter (1871-1948)
 * Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss (1833-1890)
 * Karl Gotthilf Schenkling (1835-1911)
 * Sigmund Schenkling (1865-1946)

Entomological Information Center
The Entomology Information Center keeps:
 * 24,000 monographies, anthologies
 * 48,000 volumes of periodicals of about 2.400 journals and series (titles), among them 850 current serial journals
 * 118,000 separata
 * 1,500 further media (maps, films, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, VHS)

The archives are also associated here, which comprise:
 * 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