Eduard Heinrich Graeffe or Gräffe (27 December 1833, Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 -23 April 1916 Ljubljana) was a Swiss entomologist specialising in Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

 , Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

 and Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

Graeffe was "Inspektor" at the Zoological Station in Trieste(original building :it:Acquario Marino.Graeffe also worked for Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy

Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy

Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy was a German trader and Hanseat.He was the founder of Museum Godeffroy.-Family history and the trading company J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn:...

 , a wealthy shipping magnate with a private museum, the Museum Godeffroy

Museum Godeffroy

The Museum Godeffroy was a museum in Hamburg, Germany, which existed from 1861 to 1885.The collection was founded by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, who became a wealthy shipping magnate a few years after the expansion of the his trade towards Australia and the South Seas. His expert collectors and...

.Graeffe was employed, in order to arrange the collection as a scientific museum.The museum which contained insects from Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 , Samoa

Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

, Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

 , Tonga

Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

 , the Phoenix Islands

Phoenix Islands

The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial...

 etc. also functioned as a dealership in natural history material.
He wrote *Reise im Innern dei Insel Viti Levu

Viti Levu

Viti Levu is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population.- Geography and economy :...

. Neuejahrblatt der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zurich 70: 1-48 (1868)which included descriptions by Oswald Heer

Oswald Heer

Oswald Heer , Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St. Gallen and died in Lausanne.-Biography:...

.

Works

• Das Susswasser-Aquarium. (1861)
• Reise im Innern dei Insel Viti-Levu. Neuejahrblatt der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zurich 70: 1-48.1868)
• with Funk,A. Contributo alla Fauna dei Ditteri dei dintorni di Trieste. S.1-25. Trieste (1895).
• Übersicht der Grabwespen (Fossores) des Küstenlandes.(1912)
• with Alfred Tetens
  Alfred Tetens
  Alfred Tetens was a German Senator of Hamburg, captain and South Seas explorer.-Life:Tetens was the son of a Justizrat and senator in Danish services...
  
   and John Stanislaw Kubary
  John Stanislaw Kubary
  John Stanislaw Kubary , also stated as Jan Stanislaw Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and ethnographer....
  
   The Carolines island of Yap or Guap according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary "Die Carolineninsel Yap oder Guap nach den Mittheilungen von Alf. Tetens und Johann Kubary" Microform Reprint New Haven, Conn.

Collections

Initially Graeffes insect collection was in Das Museum Godeffroy

Museum Godeffroy

The Museum Godeffroy was a museum in Hamburg, Germany, which existed from 1861 to 1885.The collection was founded by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, who became a wealthy shipping magnate a few years after the expansion of the his trade towards Australia and the South Seas. His expert collectors and...

 in Hamburg.This collection was sold and Graeffes specimens (and the material he had worked on) were divided between Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste

Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste

Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste is a natural history museum in Trieste, northern Italy.-External links:**...

(Hymenoptera, Diptera , Orthoptera

Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

 and Hemiptera) and the Naturhistorisches Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

The Naturhistorisches Museum Wien or NHMW is a large museum located in Vienna, Austria.The collections displayed cover , and the museum has a website providing an overview as a video virtual tour....

 (Hymenoptera, Orthoptera

Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

 Diptera and Hemiptera). At least some material also ended up in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

External links

• Bishop Museum Clarification of the authorship of Xixuthrus heros a beetle described by Graeffe.