{{short description|German entomologist (1892–1945)}} {{Use British English|date = April 2021}} {{use dmy dates|date = April 2021}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Max Liebke | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|2|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hamburg, Germany<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Liebke|first=Max|year=1928|trans-title=Ground Beetle Studies 5 – Entomological Gazette|title = Laufkäfer-Studien V. – Entomologischer Anzeiger|url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/EntAnz_8_0215-0218.pdf|language=German|volume=8|pages=215–218}}</ref><ref name="senckenberg"/> | death_date = {{death year and age|1945|1892}} | fields = Entomology }} '''Max Liebke''' (12 February 1892 – 1945)<ref name="senckenberg">{{Cite web|url = http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?id=10465|title = Biographies of the Entomologists of the World|website = senckenberg.de|access-date = 12 April 2021|language=German}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> was a German entomologist, who researched ground beetles. He wrote in a journal called ''Entomologischer Anzeiger'', describing beetles that he discovered.
Liebke was born '''Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke''' in Hamburg on 12 February 1892.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Hamburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901 for Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/718242:60503 |access-date=1 April 2023 |website=ancestry.co.uk}}</ref> His parents were Ernst August Julius Liebke and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Liebke (nee Wenk).<ref name=":0" />
On 21 February 1914 in Hamburg, 22 year old Liebke married 21 year old Minna Caroline Marie Antonie Elisabeth Amthor.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Hamburg, Germany, Marriages, 1874–1920 for Max Heinrich Wilhelm Liebke |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/8156288:60504?tid=&pid=&queryId=00506a5ac48d8a9a67e514f758e404d2&_phsrc=FqQ928&_phstart=successSource |access-date=1 April 2023 |website=ancestry.co.uk}}</ref> Both are described as Lutherans on their marriage record.<ref name=":3" />
Between 1927 and 1940, Liebke authored at least 33 scientific papers, mainly about Carabidae.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Blackwelder |first=Richard E |date=1957 |title=Bibliography: Liebke, Max (1892–) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bLzRZUM5ZkC&dq=max+Liebke+1892+hamburg&pg=PA1180 |journal=United States National Museum Bulletin: Checklist of the Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America |volume=185 |issue=6 |pages=1180–1181 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
Liebke was listed as missing at Posen [<nowiki/>Poznań, Poland] in 1944.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Weidner |first=Herbert |title=Geschichte der Entomologie in Hamburg |publisher=Kommissionsverlag Cram, De Gruyter |year=1967 |pages=264 |language=de}}</ref> Like'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.<ref name=":0" />
In 1932 Liebke gifted 5,344 beetle specimens to the Zoological Museum in Hamburg.<ref name=":1" /> 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 in Warsaw.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Erwin |first=Terry L |date=1975 |title=The Ground Beetle Types of Max Liebke in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (Coleoptera: Carabidae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3999667 |journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=267–268 |doi=10.5962/p.372671 |jstor=3999667 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":2" />
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