You are bidding on oneHandwritten, signed postcard of German entomologists Lucas von Heyden (1838-1915).
Dated(location according to postmark) Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main), the 26. January 1890.
The author is listed in the Frankfurt address book from 1890 as "v. Heyden, Lucas Fr. Jul. Domin., Dr. phil., Major zD, Schlossstr. 54, Bockenh."
Aimed at the Belgian physicians and entomologists Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (1827-1898) in Glain-lez-Liège (near Liège).
Language:French.
Lucas von Heyden gives it Eugène König's new address known (St. Petersburg, Officer Street 10, logis 23), which is known asDealer in natural goods (mentioned in the Entomological Journal as Rare butterfly dealer) is detectable.
Signed by hand "Von Heyden."
10-pfennig postal stationery (9.2 x 14 cm).
Condition:paper browned and stained; Corners slightly bumped.bPlease also note the pictures!
Internal note: Kostbhf. 22-10 company PK joke etc foreign autograph autograph
About Lucas von Heyden and the recipient Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (source: wikipedia):
Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (* 22. May 1838 in Frankfurt am Main; † 13. September 1915 ibid) was a German entomologist.
Life: He was the son of Carl von Heyden and came to entomology through his father. After attending high school in Frankfurt, he was an officer in the Frankfurt Infantry Battalion. He became a captain and company commander; In 1884 he received the rank of major. When his unit was disbanded in 1866, he devoted himself entirely to entomology, with the exception of the 1870/71 campaign. He was a section for entomology at the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. He had the title of professor.
He collected in Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia, among other places.
In addition to beetles, he was particularly concerned with webworms and hymenoptera. He completed Max Saalmüller's work on the butterflies of Madagascar. From 1880 he was head of the fight against phylloxera in the Rhine and Ahr valleys.
His collection of Palearctic beetles went to the German Entomological Institute in Berlin-Dahlem, his remaining collection and the extensive entomological library to the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. In 1875 von Heyden was elected a member of the Leopoldina.
He belonged to the Frankfurt patrician association Zum Frauenstein.
He married on the 15th. May 1873 m Freiin Hermine Karoline Marie Therese Wilhelmine Friederike Riedesel zu Eisenbach (* 26. June 1845; † 26. January 1875), a daughter of the Hessian Colonel Giesebert Riedesel zu Eisenbach (1813–1885). The couple had a daughter who died young.
Awards
Iron Cross (1870), 2. Class
Order of St. John, Knight of Honor (1877)
Red Eagle Order, 4th Class (1890), 3rd Class with the Bow (1909)
Royal Crown Order (Prussia), 3rd Class (1902)
Fonts
Entomological trip to Spain and Portugal. 1870
The beetles of Nassau and Frankfurt am Main. 1877, 2. Edition 1904
Catalog of Coleoptera of Siberia. German entomological journal 1880 to 1881, supplements 1893, 1896, 1898
Coleopteran fauna of Tunis and Tripoli. German entomological journal 1890
Coleptera fauna from the Sinai Peninsula. German entomological journal 1899
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze (*27. February 1827 in Liège, Belgium; † 30. June 1898 in Glain, Belgium) was a Belgian physician and entomologist. His research focus was on click beetles (Elateridae), of which he described numerous new species.
Life and work: After previous training, Candèze completed medical studies in Liège and Paris. In Liège he was a student of the entomologist Jean Théodore Lacordaire, who probably had an important influence on Candèze's career as an entomologist. On Lacordaire's recommendation, he joined the entomological circles in Liège, where he became long-time friends with his colleagues Félicien Chapuis (1824–1879), Edmond de Selys-Longchamps (1813–1900) and Robert McLachlan (1837–1904). Candèze subsequently became an assistant doctor in a large facility for the mentally ill, where he married the director's daughter and then accepted the post of director of the institution himself, which he gave up a few years later.
Candèze's first entomological publication, a catalog of beetle larvae, was written in 1853 in collaboration with Félicien Chapuis. The most famous, however, was Candèze's monograph des Élatérides, which was published in four volumes in 1857, 1859, 1860 and 1863. Out of friendship with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886), he also wrote popular science books, including Aventures d'un grillon (Paris, 1877), La Gileppe, les infortunes d'une population d'insectes (Paris, 1879) and Périnette , histoire surprenante de cinq moineaux (Paris, 1886).
In 1855, together with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, he was one of the founding members of the Royal Belgian Association for Entomology, in whose Annals Candèze supplemented his comments on click beetles for many years. In 1860 he became a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Candèze periodically assembled several collections of Elateridae types, the first and most important of which was that of the British entomologist Edward Wesley Janson, who died in 1891. Today this collection is in the British Museum.
In addition to his entomological research, Candèze worked as a photographer. In 1874 he patented a foldable camera, the so-called Scénographe.
Candèze was married and had five children. His son Léon (1863–1926) was also a well-known entomologist.
factories
Catalog méthodique des élatérides connus en 1890. 1891
Catalog des larves des coléoptères, connues jusqu'a ce jour. with the description of plusieurs new species. 1853
Monograph des élatérides. 1857–1863
Revision of the monograph of the élatérides. 1874