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Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres

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Name
  
Jakob Laspeyres


Died
  
November 28, 1809

Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres ( [laˈspɛːɐ̯]; 9 April 1769, Berlin – 28 November 1809, Berlin) was a German entomologist especially interested in Lepidoptera. He was a Bürgermeister in Berlin. Laspeyres collection is in Museum für Naturkunde.

The moth genus Laspeyresia is named after him.

Works

  • Kritische Revision der neuen Ausgabe des systematischen Verzeichnisses von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. Illigers’s Magazine (von Karl Illiger). Braunschweig, Karl Reichard, 1803
  • Sesiae Europaeae Iconibus et Descriptionibus illustratae, 32 pp., 1 pl. Berlin. pdf

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