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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 (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==
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 ==See also==
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