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Georg Karl Maria von Seidlitz (June 19, 1840, St. Petersburg – July 15, 1917, Irschenhausen near Munich) 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.

Von Seidlitz was an early supporter of Darwinism in continental Europe.

Selected publications

• Die Darwin'sche Theorie: Elf Vorlesungen über die Entstehung der Thiere und Planzen durch Naturzüchtung (1871)

References

1. Buchanan, Brett. (2008). Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. State University of New York Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7914-7611-6

• Klausnitzer, B. 2003: Der Beitrag österreichischer Entomologen zur Erforschung der Marienkäfer (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Denisia 8 91-120, 30 Abb. 92
• Scherer, G. 1992: Die Sektion Coleoptera der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Spixiana Suppl. 17 61-71, 5 Abb. 66 (Sammlung)

External links

• Works by or about Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz at the Internet Archive
• History of Zoology in Königsberg

• 1840 births
• 1917 deaths
• Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the German Empire
• Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire
• Scientists from the Russian Empire
• German entomologists
• Scientists from Saint Petersburg
• Academic staff of the University of Tartu
• Academic staff of the University of Königsberg