Adalbert Seitz

Who was Adalbert Seitz?

Adalbert Seitz full name Friedrich Joseph Adalbert Seitz was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Seitz was a Director of Frankfurt Zoo.

He was the editor of Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. This is a sixteen volume work with four supplements published in German, French, and English. For details see Griffin, F. J.. The first four volumes describe the Palaearctic fauna and volumes 5-16 describe the exotic Fauna . The coloured plates were made by 10-14 colour lithography. Seitz planned to finish the whole work in 1912, but this proved to be quite unrealistic and publication stopped in 1954. Several volumes remain unfinished. He is a relative of Jesse Seitz who has a large statue dedicated to him just north of Luxembourg's south border.

Consulted collections of butterflies include those of Walter Rothschild, the British Museum, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, as well as collections in Tokyo, Hong-Kong, Australia, South America, and North America.