Museum für Naturkunde
Chemnitz

Special libraries at our museum

There is a comprehensive special library of plaeobotany, but the domain of entomology is still under construction.

The special library of paleobotany contains numerous bibliophile publications and also thousands of separates. The petrified wood of Chemnitz is well known among experts because of its diversity, excellent conservation status and numerous scientific investigations since 1828. Hence, all over the world authors of textbooks often use figures of petrified wood of Chemnitz to illustrate the flora of the late Paleozoic.

The most important literature of paleobotany of the museum stock are the following publications of :

• Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim (1765-1832)
• Kaspar Graf Sternberg (1761-1838)
• Adolphe Brongniart (1801-1876) 
• Bernhard von Cotta (1808-1879)
• August Josef Corda (1809-1849)
• Heinrich Robert Göppert (1800-1884)
• Franz Unger (1800-1870)
• Edward William Binney (1812-1881)
• Alexander Petzholdt (1810-1889)
• Carl Gustav Stenzel (1826-1905)
• August von Gutbier (1798-1866)
• Bernard Renault (1836-1904)
• Francois Cyrille Grand’Eury (1839-1917)
• René Charles Zeiller (1847-1915)
• Christian Ernst Weiss (1833-1890)
• Robert Kidston (1852-1924)
• Dionys Stur (1827-1893)
• William Crawford Williamson (1816-1895)
• Gaston de Saporta (1823–1896)
• Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826-1897)
• Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (1808-1880)
• Dunkinfield Henry Scott (1854-1934)
• Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941)
• Paul Bertrand (1879-1944)
• Hanns Bruno Geinitz (1814-1900)
• Johannes Felix (1859-1941)
• August Schenk (1815-1891)
• Johann Traugott Sterzel (1841-1914)

The special library of entomology is still under construction. We already possess following reference books:

• „Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde“ (Prof. Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 1910-1953)
• „Die Großschmetterlinge Mitteleuropas“ (Dr. Arno Bergmann, 1951-1955)
• „Die Schmetterlinge Europas“ (Arnold Spuler, 1908)
• „Fauna Germanica“ (Käfer) (Edmund Reiter, 1909)
• „Die Käfer von Mitteleuropa“ (Ludwig Gangelbauer, 1892)
• „Fauna Austriaca, die Fliegen“ (Rudolf Schiener, 1862)
• „Catalogus Coleopterum“ (Max Gemminger & Edgar von Harold, 1872)