Ferdinand Karsch
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Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch | |
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| Born | 2 September 1853 Münster, Germany |
| Died | 20 December 1936 Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Arachnologist, Entomologist, Anthropologist |
| Employer(s) | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Curator, 1878-1921) |
| Known for | Extensive work on spiders, contributions to entomology, research on sexuality |
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| Alma mater | Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin |
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| Notable works | Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Kulturvölker (1906), Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvölker (1911) |
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch (2 September 1853, in
entomologist and anthropologist
. He also wrote on human and animal sexual diversity with his mother's maiden name included as Ferdinand Karsch-Haack from around 1905.
Life and work
The son of doctor
naturalists working in Africa, in China, in Japan, in Australia, etc. This publication of others' work sometimes led to disputes over priority and nomenclature, for example with Pickard-Cambridge
.
Alongside his
homosexual in Berlin.[1]
He also founded and edited a magazine along with René Stelter called Uranos. Blätter für ungeschmälertes Menschentum (1921-23) where he wrote on his scientific ideas. The rise of Hitler to power and Nazi repression of homosexuality led to the eclipse of his reputation.
Some of the animals described
Spiders
- Misgolas 1878 – New South Wales, Australia
- Portia schultzi 1878 — Central, East, Southern Africa, Madagascar
- Holothele 1879 - Venezuela
- Linothele 1879 — South America
- Sphaerobothria 1879 – Costa Rica
- Thelechoris 1881 — Africa, Madagascar
- Tribe Diplocentrini 1880
- Acontius 1879 — Africa
- Heterothele 1879 – Africa Congo
- Pedinopistha 1880 – Hawaii
- Campostichomma 1891 — Sri Lanka (one species)
- Corinnomma 1880
- Megalostrata 1880
- Chilobrachys 1892
- Myrmarachne
Other animals
- Potamarcha (1890)
About homosexuality
- Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvölker, 1911, online at archive.org
- Karsch, F. (2022). Karl Heinrich Ulrichs' predecessor Heinrich Hössli (1784-1864): The first known literary activist and parent of a gay man. (M. Lombardi-Nash, Trans.). Jacksonville, FL: Urania Manuscripts. (Original work published 1903)
- Karsch, F. (2021). Male and female homosexuality in animals on the basis of literature. (M. Lombardi-Nash, Trans.). Jacksonville, FL: Urania Manuscripts. (Original work published 1900)
Literature
- ISBN 0-415-15983-0, pp. 281–282.
- Hergemöller, Bernd-Ulrich (2001). Mann für Mann: biographisches Lexikon (in German). Suhrkamp. pp. 410–411.
References
- ^ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Man for Mann, pp410,411
External links
Data related to Ferdinand Karsch at Wikispecies
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