Anton Handlirsch
Anton Handlirsch or Anton Peter Josef Handlirsch (20 January 1865,
. His most significant work was in the study of fossil insects.Anton was born to Peter (1831–1873) and Rosina Handlirsch (born 1841). His father worked as a
honoris causa and he was made a member of the Academy of Science of Vienna. He is best known for Die Fossilen Insekten (1906–1908) – 1,433 pages and 51 plates – and his contributions to the third volume of Christoph Schröder's Handbuch der Entomologie (1920–1925) – 1,201 pages with 1,040 figures.[1]
Handlirsch's fossil collection is mostly in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Other parts are in the Ernst-Moritz-Universität in Greifswald.
References
- ^ Aspöck, Horst (2016). "Anton Handlirsch (1865–1935): Biographie und Beziehung zur Neuropterologie". Entomologica Austriaca. 23: 119–150.
Sources
- Guido Nonveiller (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.
- Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930) Leiden, Backhuys.
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