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Corresponding author: Dominique Zimmermann ( dominique.zimmermann@nhm-wien.ac.at ) Academic editor: Susanne Randolf
© 2017 Dominique Zimmermann.
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Citation:
Zimmermann D (2017) 160 years of D.E.Z. – what is the recipe for thy long life? Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64(2): 161-161. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.64.22742
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This year we look back at 160 years of entomological research published in the DEZ. Believe it or not, our journal is the third oldest of all still existing entomological periodicals worldwide! A concatenation of favourable circumstances? At first glance, the first decades were rather tough ones, involving personal controversies, splitting of the society behind the journal and the journal itself, and later reunion (
Finally, Gustav Kraatz was driven by the urge to combine collections and libraries of all German entomologists, so that scientists could have free access (
The incredible number of 22.613 species descriptions published in the last 160 years in the DEZ (
Together let’s do our best to continue this line to the future!