Career
Konow was a vicar studying entomology in his spare time. He wrote Familie Tenthredinidae in Wytsman"s, Genera Insectorum ( Fascicle 29) 176 pp. 1905) and very many short papers describing new species of worldwide Tenthredinidae.
His collection is shared between the German Entomological Institute, Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg and Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.