Friedrich Julius Schilsky

Friedrich Julius Schilsky (1848-1912) was a German entomologist. He was secretary of the Entomological Society of Berlin. His principal work was a catalogue of German beetles Systematisches Verzeichnis der Käfer Deutschlands, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer geographischen Verbreitung. Zugleich ein Käfer-Verzeichnis der Mark Brandenburg. In 1894, he continued Die Käfer Europas started by Heinrich Carl Küster (1807-1876), briefly succeeded by Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831-1909) and Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter (1820-1880). Schilsky, wrote the seventeen last volumes. His collections are in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.