Wilhelm Junk

Wilhelm Junk born Jeitteles (3 February 1866, Prague – 3 December 1942, The Hague) was a noted Czech antiquarian bookseller in the field of natural history, and an entomologist.

Wilhelm was born in Prague in a family with numerous pharmacists.

After high school, he worked with his bookseller uncle Julius Friedländer in Berlin around 1882.

He left Friedländer in 1899 and established his book dealership "Antiquariaat Junk", in 1899 in Berlin.

At the end of 1942 the Gestapo were expected to arrest Junk and just before they arrived, he and his wife committed suicide.