Emil Weiske (1867, Dolsenhain beiAltenburg – 1950,Saalfeld) was a Germannaturalist.
Emil Weiske was a professional collector of insects and birds. He emigrated to California in 1890 and to Hawaii in 1892. He made expeditions to theFiji Islands in 1894 and toNew Zealand andAustralia in 1895. He became a professional collector inNew Guinea dealing especially inbirds of paradise (1895 -1900). Later expeditions were to NortheastSiberia,Lake Baikal and North-Mongolia (1908) and then toPatagonia (mainly to the Rio Negro und Limay) andParaguay (mainly) Concepcion (1911). His collections were mostly birds, mammals, molluscs, reptiles and amphibians, beetles, butterflies, herbaria and ethnological artefacts.
His associates were, among othersGeorge Meyer-Darcis,Carl Ribbe,Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, theOtto Staudinger Staudinger &Bang-Haas dealershipWalter Rothschild andHenley Grose-Smith.
He maintained a private museum in Saalfeld where he gave lectures on natural history and his travels.
Insects (all orders but especiallyHymenoptera,Coleoptera andLepidoptera collected by Emil Weiske are held byZoologische Staatssammlung München in Munich,Staatliches Museum für TierkundeMuseum für Naturkunde in Berlin and theNatural History Museum, London (via theNatural History Museum at Tring).
Birds collected by Weiske are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Natural History Museum, London, Museum für Naturkunde, BerlinMuseum für Naturkunde andNaturkundemuseum Leipzig. Other collections are inNaturhistorisches Museum Wien andMuseum für Völkerkunde in Vienna.
He is honoured in the butterfly namesGraphium weiskei andDelias weiskei and the bird nameNew Guinea hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei).
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