{{Short description|German entomologist (1855-1939)}} thumb|230px|Hermann Julius Kolbe '''Hermann Julius Kolbe''' (2 June 1855, Halle, Province of Westphalia – 26 November 1939) was a German entomologist from Halle, Westphalia. He was curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum from 1890 until 1921 specialising in Coleoptera, Psocoptera and Neuroptera. He died in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Kolbe was born in Halle and studied at the University of Munster but did not complete due to problems with health and family. He worked as a teacher in Oeding from 1878 to 1882 and then joined the entomology department of the Zoologisches Museum at Berlin and became a curator of Coleoptera and Neuroptera in 1921. One of his interests was in the Scarabaeidae.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ohl|first=Michael|date=2012|title=The primary types of Mantispidae (Neuropterida) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin - An annotated catalogue|journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution|language=en|volume=88|issue=1|pages=97–124|doi=10.1002/zoos.201200010|issn=1435-1935}}</ref>

==Works== Partial list: *Beziehungen unter der Arten von Poecilaspis (Cassididae) nebst Beschreibung einer von Herrn R. Rohde in Paraguay endeckten neuen Species dieser Gattung. ''Ent. Nachr''., 13: 10-13 (1887). *Beiträge zur Zoogeographie Westafrikas nebst einem Bericht über die während der Loango-Expedition von Herrn Dr. Falkenstein bei Chinchoxo gesammelten Coleoptera. ''Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. Deutsch. Akad. Naturf''., 1, 3: 155-364 + 3 pl.(1887). (Also published as a book by E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden). *Eine von Herrn Dr. med. Drake in Paraguay entdeckte neue Canistra-art. ''Ent. Nachr''., 13: 27 (1887). *''Käfer und Netzflüger Ost-Afrikas''. In: K. Möbius (ed.), ''Deutsch-Ost-Afrika. Wissenschaftliche Forschungsresultate über Land und Leute unseres ostafrikanischen Schutzgebietes und der Angrenzenden Lä nder. Band IV. Die Thierwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete. Wirbellose Thiere''. Verlag Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin (1898).

==Collections== *Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin *Westfälische Museum für Naturkunde *Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław

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