Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof
German colonial officer, geographer and entomologist
About Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof
Lived 1875 – 1948 (aged 73). Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof was a German explorer, lepidopterist, military officer, zoologist, scientific collector and botanical collector.
Arnold Schultze (24 March 1875 – 22 August 1948) was a German officer, geographer, and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
His 1916 collections of African Rhopalocera (1916) are in the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. Later collections of Lepidoptera from Colombia (1920, 1926 and 1927), Ubangi, Congo (1929 and 1931), Cameroon and Lake Chad (1932) and Ecuador (1935 and 1939) are in the Natural History Museum in Berlin.
Publications Partial list 1920 Lepidoptera. 11. Teil. Ergebnisse. der Zweiten Deutschen Zentral Afrika Expedition. 2910-11. Vol. 1, Part 14, pp. 639–837 1929. Die ersten Stände von drei kolumbianischen hochandinen Satyriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 43: 157-165, tfl. 3 1931 Die ersten Stande von zwei Heteroceren aus Aequatorial Afrika. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris., 45: 140.143.
Full list at African Butterfly Database (Bibliography)
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German colonial officer, geographer and entomologist (1875-1948)
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Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof was born on 24 March 1875 in Cologne.
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Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof died on 22 August 1948 in Madeira Island.
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Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof was an explorer, lepidopterist, military officer, zoologist, scientific collector and botanical collector.
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Arnold Schultze, later Schultze-Rhonhof was German.
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