Philipp Bertkau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philipp Bertkau

German zoologist

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1849

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1894

Profession: zoologist, university teacher, coleopterology, taxonomist, entomologist, arachnologist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Philipp Bertkau (January 11, 1849 – October 22, 1894) was a German zoologist born in Cologne. He studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn, where in 1872 he earned his doctorate.
In 1873 he became an assistant at the botanical institute in Munich, and during the following spring was an assistant at the zoological institute at Bonn.
In 1882 he was appointed professor at the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf, and in 1890 became curator at the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Bertkau is remembered for his work involving the anatomy and physiology of spiders, research on sense of smell in butterflies, and anatomical studies of hermaphroditic arthropods.
At Bonn he was secretary of Bonner Gesellschaft für Naturgeschichte (Bonn Society of Natural History). He is the taxonomic authority of the families Anyphaenidae, Hahniidae, Sparassidae and Zoropsidae, and of the genera Ancylometes, Chalcoscirtus, Comaroma and Diplocephalus.