Max Liebke

Max Liebke (12 February 1892 – 1945)[2][3] was a German entomologist, who researched about ground beetles. He wrote in a journal called Entomologischer Anzeiger, describing beetles that he discovered.

Liebke was born Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke at Hamburg on 12 February 1892.[3] His parents were Ernst August Julius Liebke and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Liebke (nee Wenk).[3]

On 21 February 1914 at Hamburg, 22 year old Liebke married 21 year old Minna Caroline Marie Antonie Elisabeth Amthor.[4] Both are described as Lutherans on their marriage record.[4]

Between 1927 and 1940 Liebke authored at least 33 scientific papers, mainly about Carabidae.[5]

Liebke was listed as missing at Posen [Poznań, Poland] in 1944.[6] Liebke's birth registration document bears an official stamp noting that he was formally declared dead on 11 October 1951, but is considered to have been dead by the end of 1945.[3]

In 1932 Liebke gifted 5,344 beetle specimens to the Zoological Museum at Hamburg.[6] Liebke's carabidae collection was partially destroyed during World War II, but some specimens survived and were moved to the collections of the Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw.[7] Liebke also described species from material loaned to him by other scientists, including beetles later returned to Ferdinand Nevermann (1881-1938) whose collection is now at the Smithsonian Museum.[7]