Friedrich Otto Gustav Quedenfeldt Explained

Friedrich Otto Gustav Quedenfeldt (14 June 1817, Graudenz – 20 December 1891, Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

He was a Major General in the Prussian army. His son Max jun. Quedenfeldt (13 June 1851, Glogau – 18 September 1891, Berlin), a Lieutenant in the Prussian Army, was an insect dealer who made collecting expeditions to Morocco (1880, 1883 and 1885/86), Algeria (1884), the Canary Islands (1887), Tripoli and Tunisia (1888/89) and Anatolia (Kleinasien) (1891) .

Works

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The Quedenfeldt collection of exotic beetles was sold to René Oberthür and is now in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. The Palearctic beetle collection was given to the Zoological Institute of the Berlin University and is now in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

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