Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz

Georg Karl Maria von Seidlitz was a German doctor and entomologist. He was a zoology teacher in Dorpat (1868–77), then in Königsberg, (1877–88), where he became a fishery expert. He later specialised in Coleoptera, describing many new species and he wrote Fauna Baltica. Die Käfer (Coleoptera) der Ostseeprovinzen Russlands. Dorpat, 1875. His general beetle collection is conserved in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, his Baltic Coleoptera are in the zoology museum in Kaliningrad.

19 June 1840

Born on the same birth day (19 June): Ayman al-Zawahiri • Bryan Hughes • Dire Tune • Guy Lombardo • Hamilton Hume • Jahine Arnold • James VI and I • John Heartfield • John MacArthur (American pastor) • Johnny Gray • Margarita Ponomaryova • Mary Sibbet Copley • Pier Angeli • Rashard Mendenhall • Wally Hammond

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