Wespen is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
As a young man Alexander Moszkowski moved to Berlin where he met Julius Stettenheim, who noticed his qualities as a writer and hired him for his satirical magazine Berliner Wespen,.
The paper incorporated as a supplement the Berliner Wespen, a paper Julius Stettenheim had created for humor and satire.
He was a specialist in Hymenoptera who published in 1791 Naturgeschichte, Klassifikation und Nomenklatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht.