Julius von Kennel

Julius von Kennel

Julius von Kennel

Julius von Kennel (10 June 1854 – 24 January 1939) was a German zoologist and entomologist born in Schwegenheim.

He studied at the University of Würzburg, where he came under the influence of zoologist Karl Semper (1832-1893). Later, he worked as an assistant to Karl August Möbius (1825-1908) at the University of Kiel, and following his habilitation, he returned to the University of Würzburg. In 1882-83 he participated on a research expedition to Trinidad and Venezuela (including the Orinoco River region). Later, he served as a lecturer at the Forstakademie in Aschaffenburg, and from 1887 to 1915, was a full professor of zoology at the University of Dorpat.

Kennel was an authority on Microlepidoptera, and in particular the family- Tortricidae (tortrix moths). In 1898-99 he was president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society, and in 1922 became director of the zoological museum in Riga.

Written works

• 1883: Biologische und faunistische Notizen aus Trinidad. 28 pp. - Biological and faunistic notes from Trinidad.
• 1887: Über Theilung und Knospung der Thiere. 60 pp.
• 1891: Die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der Arthropoden, K. F. Koehler. 48 pp. - Relationships of arthropods.
• 1893: Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke. 678 pp. - Textbook of zoology.
• 1896: Studien über sexuellen Dimorphismus: Variation und verwandte Erscheinungen. Druck von C. Mattiesen. 64 pp. - Studies of sexual dimorphism: variation and related phenomena.
• 1921, The Palaearktischen Tortriciden, eine monographische Darstellung. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 742 pp. - Palaearctic Tortricidae, a monograph.pdf at Zobodat
• 1923, Ueber Ctenodrilus Pardalis Clap, Ein Beitr. Zur Kenntniss Der Anatomie Und Knospung Der Anneliden, Neuauflage BiblioBazaar, 2010.

References

• Eggers, F.: 1939, (Kennel, J.). Zool. Anz. 125(9/10): p. 272.
• Eggers, F.: 1942, (Kennel, J.). Korrespondenzbl. Naturf. Ver. Riga, 64: p. 13 - 14.
• Escherich, K.: 1943, In Memoriam Julius von Kennel. Z. angew. Ent., 30: p. 148 - 151.
• Sachtleben, H.: 1939, (Kennel, J. von). Arb. morph. taxon. Ent. Berlin-Dahlem, 6(2): p. 188.
• Strand, E.: 1940, (Kennel, J.). Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, 10: p. 364 - 368.
• Groll, E. K. (ed.): 2006, Entomologen der Welt (Biographien, Sammlungsverbleib). Datenbank 2. Version, DEI im ZALF e. V.: Kennel, Julius von: (Internet).