Biographical dictionary
The Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists was compiled by the late Michael Darby. The Dictionary can be accessed below, and see also the additional information provide by Michael:
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIESBACH Family | Anne Jarvis (a descendant. Famrj2@cam.ac.uk) and Angie Bish (angie@bish4233.freeserve.co.uk) have both been doing extensive work on the Griesbach family and have much information to add to the entries below. (MD 10/03) | ||
| GRIESBACH, A.G. | One of four sons of George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, a music teacher of Windsor, all of whom were Coleopterists. (See J.H.GRIESBACH). He was a Member of the Entomological Society. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GRIESBACH, Alexander (Andrew?) William | A Reverend who lived at Wollaston, near Wellingborough, Northants. One of four sons of George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, a music teacher of Windsor, all of whom were Coleopterists. (See J.H. GRIESBACH). He was a member of the Entomological Society and appears to be the only one of the family to have published. Two notes appeared under his name: 'On the existence of natural genera', Ent.Mag., 1, 1833, pp.296-301, and 'Note on the economy of Gyrinus villosus', ibid., 4, 1837, p.254. MacKechnie-Jarvis (19 ) states that 'The Rev. Andrew Griesbach is said to have been the first systematic collector of beetles in Cambridgeshire and worked the Fens extensively'. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GRIESBACH, C. | In Ent.Ann., 1856, 86, E.W.Janson, mentions that J. Curtis had obtained his specimens of Ampedus subcarinatus Germ. 'from the collection of the late Mr C. Griesbach, who captured them near Windsor'. MacKechnie-Jarvis (19) does not mention a C. Griesbach. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GRIESBACH, Henry G. | One of four sons of George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, a music teacher of Windsor, all of whom were Coleopterists. (See J.H.GRIESBACH). He was a Member of the Entomological Society. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GRIESBACH, John Henry | 1798 - 1875 | Most of my information about Griesbach and other members of the family (see above and below) is taken from MacKechnie-Jarvis (1976) who illustrates a family tree showing how the Griesbachs were related by marriage to the Waterhouse and Rye families. (Elizabeth Ann Griesbach, sister of the four sons of George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, married George Robert Waterhouse, the Coleopterist and Keeper of Minerals at the NHM). John Henry, a 'Cellist and Composer of Windsor' was also a Coleopterist. MacKechnie-Jarvis says of the family: 'Stephens published a number of their records from the Windsor area and it is well known that up to 1930 some of their captures had never been repeated. They were a musical family who came to England from Halle in Hanover to join Queen Charlotte's band and also played as a family chamber orchestra. In my earlier days some members of our society [BENHS] were convinced that they had 'fiddled' the records, but the Griesbach honour was abundantly redeemed when Adelocera quercus [Lacon querceus](Herbst)... was rediscovered at Windsor and restored to the British list in 1936 [by A.A.Allen]'. The name Griesbach appears on labels in the Waterhouse Collection in the RSM. (MD 1/03) | |
| GRIESBACH, W.G. | One of four sons of George Leopold Jacob Griesbach, a music teacher of Windsor, all of whom were Coleopterists. (See J.H.GRIESBACH). (MD 1/03) |