# Julius Flohr > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Julius_Flohr > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Julius_Flohr.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Flohr > Source revision: 1194997002 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German entomologist and banker in Mexico (1837–1896)}} [[File:Julius Flohr.jpg|thumb|Undated portrait of Flohr in Berlin, held in the collection of the [Academy of Natural Sciences](/source/Academy_of_Natural_Sciences_of_Drexel_University), Philadelphia.]] '''Julius Flohr''' (11 February 1837 – 8 February 1896) was a German banker and entomologist resident in [Mexico](/source/Mexico).{{Cite book |last=Gordh |first=Gordon |url=http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofento0000gord |title=A dictionary of entomology |date=2011 |publisher=Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA: CABI |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-84593-542-9 |pages=581}} == Early life == Flohr was born in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg), in what was then the [German Confederation](/source/German_Confederation), on 11 February 1837.{{cite book |last1=Weidner |first1=H. |title=Biographies of the Entomologists of the World |date=1967 |publisher=Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, N. F. |page=116 |url=https://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?id=23599 |chapter=Flohr, Julius}} He was educated there and in [England](/source/England).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tFx8W0oGaXEC&dq=julius+flohr+well+known+coleopterist&pg=PA91 |title=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |date=1896 |publisher=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine Limited |pages=91 |language=en}} == Banking career == In 1859, Flohr moved to [Mexico City](/source/Mexico_City) to work as a banker. In 1862, he joined Esteban Benecke & Co., a bank in which he became a life-long partner.{{Cite journal |last=Kraatz |first=Ernst Gustav |date=1896 |title=Julius Flohr |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Flohr_Julius_Deutsche-Ent-Zeitschrift_1896_0366-0367.pdf |journal=Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift |issue=II |pages=367 |lang=de}} Benecke was the [Prussian](/source/Prussia) [consul](/source/Consul_(representative)) and one of Mexico's first bankers.{{Cite journal |last=Ludlow |first=Leonor |date=May 1996 |title=La primera generación de banqueros en la Ciudad de México |url=https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/download/06cc0e6f-0bf3-476d-9cd4-036b6cb67781?filename=la-primera-generacion-de-banqueros-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico |journal=Revista de la Universidad de Mexico |issue=544 |page=18}} == Entomological pursuits == Flohr retired from day-to-day banking in 1877 and devoted himself to the study of insects, especially [beetle](/source/beetle)s. Interest in [comparative anatomy](/source/comparative_anatomy) remained high following the publication of Darwin's ''[On the Origin of Species](/source/On_the_Origin_of_Species)'', and Flohr's field work was cited extensively in the ''[Biologia Centrali-Americana](/source/Biologia_Centrali-Americana)'' encyclopedia. Between 1878 and 1885, British naturalist [Henry Walter Bates](/source/Henry_Walter_Bates) named several species of North American beetle for Flohr, including * ''[Bembidion flohri](/source/Bembidion_flohri)''{{Cite web |title=Bembidion flohri Bates, 1878 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7534616 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}} * ''[Ecteneolus flohri](/source/Ecteneolus_flohri)''{{Cite web |title=Cerambycidae (Longhorns) |url=http://titan.gbif.fr/sel_genann1.php?numero=2669 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=titan.gbif.fr}} * ''[Hybothecus flohri](/source/Hybothecus_flohri)''{{Cite web |title=Hybothecus flohri (Bates, 1882) |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/7954323 |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=www.gbif.org |language=en}} In 1884, Flohr accompanied American zoologist [Edward Drinker Cope](/source/Edward_Drinker_Cope) in Mexico. Cope wrote:
I am indebted to my excellent friend, Dr. Julius Flohr, of the city of Mexico, for a canoe excursion on the [lake Xochimilco](/source/lake_Xochimilco) [...] Here I had an opportunity of seeing the botany and zoology of the very irregular shores, which are so curiously constructed by the art of the natives [...] The ends and shores of the piers are the resting place of innumerable snakes, which can be readily observed from a canoe. The wife of our Indian boatman was particularly acute in detecting these animals before either my friend or myself could see them.{{Cite journal |last=Cope |first=E. D. |date=1885 |title=A Contribution to the Herpetology of Mexico |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/982999 |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=22 |issue=120 |pages=386 |jstor=982999 |issn=0003-049X}}
== Death == Flohr died in [Veracruz](/source/Veracruz) on 8 February 1896.{{efn|The ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' records his date of death as 18 February 1896.}} He was eulogized by entomologists [George Charles Champion](/source/George_Charles_Champion) in England and [Ernst Gustav Kraatz](/source/Ernst_Gustav_Kraatz) in Germany. Flohr's collection of insect specimens was bequeathed to the [Berlin Zoological Museum](/source/Berlin_Zoological_Museum). ==Notes== {{notelist}} == References == {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Flohr, Julius}} Category:1837 births Category:1896 deaths Category:German emigrants to Mexico Category:Mexican bankers Category:German entomologists Category:Mexican entomologists Category:Scientists from Hamburg Category:Entomologists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Julius Flohr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Flohr) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Flohr?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.