Carl Muesebeck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American entomologist
Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1894
Place of Birth: Medina, New York, United States
Date of Death: 13-Nov-1987
Profession: entomologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Carl Muesebeck
- Carl Frederick Willam Muesebeck (24 September 1894 - 13 November 1987) was an American entomologist who specialized in the Hymenoptera.
- He worked at the insect identification division of the US Department of Agriculture and was also a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. Carl was born in Medina, New York where his parents William and Marie Koch had moved to in the 1880s.
- His father who worked as a tailor came from Stettin, Pomerania (the family name has variants that include Meusebach) and his mother was from Angermunde, east of Berlin.
- They had married in the United States.
- Carl went to school in Medina and at Brockport High School, while also helping his father at his tailoring business.
- He joined Cornell University in 1912 and took an interest in mathematics and English.
- His interest in insects was sparked by studies under John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock.
- Graduating with an interest in biology and entomology he joined the US department of agriculture in 1916 studying gypsy and brown-tail moths in his early years.
- He resigned work in 1918 to join Cornell for doctoral studies.
- His thesis was on the North American Apanteles and after receiving his doctorate, he rejoined the USDA in 1919.
- He worked briefly in Hungary in 1926-1928 during which time he travelled around Europe.
- Carl wrote numerous taxonomic revisions on hymenoptera.
- Another influential work was his catalogue of Common names of insects approved by the American association of economic entomologists (1946).For his 75th birthday the flea specialist Robert Traub named a genus Muesebeckella after him while Harry Hoogstraal described a tick Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) muesebecki from an masked booby to which he gave the common name "Musebeck's Arabian Booby Argasid." Karl Krombein dedicated a genus of cuckoo wasp Muesebeckidium.Carl retired in 1954.
- He took part in baseball and bowling, and was a long distance runner.
- He married Ida C.
- Praedel in 1917.
- They had a son who died at the age of 16 from a brain tumour in 1935.
- Ida died in 1975.
- He married Luella M.
- Walkley, a hymenopterist colleague, in 1980 but she died in 1981.
- He then lived with his cousin Elfrieda Geissler.
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