Wilhelm Junk

Advertising W. Junk in Berlin W 5 Spezial-Antiquariat für Botanik (about 1900)

Wilhelm Junk (3 February 1866, Prague – 3 December 1942, Den Haag) was a Czech natural history, bibliographer bookseller and entomologist.

Wilhelm Junk established his book dealership "Antiquariaat Junk", in 1899 in Berlin. He soon became the leading dealer in works on natural history in Europe. Junk also edited and published reference works notably Lepidopterorum Catalogus edited by Embrik Strand and Coleopterorum Catalogus edited by Junk himself and Sigmund Schenkling. A jewish refugee, he moved his shop to Den Haag in the 1930s. He sold his business to Rudolph Schierenberg in 1935. It still operates as "Antiquariaat Junk".

He was a Doctor of Philosophy Honoris causae an honour conferred by the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Works

Incomplete list

See also

Mycopathologia

Further reading

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 28, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.