Heinrich Carl Küster


Heinrich Carl Küster was a German malacologist. and entomologist.
From 1836, he worked as an instructor at a trade school in Erlangen. He conducted scientific excursions in Sardinia as well as in Dalmatia and Montenegro.
He was the originator of "Die Käfer Europas, nach der Natur beschrieben", a multi-volume series that was continued by Ernst Gustav Kraatz and Friedrich Julius Schilsky. Also, he provided drawings for Carl Wilhelm Hahn's ornithological work, "Voegel, aus Asien, Africa, America, und Neuholland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen".