Douglas by Bigot de Saint-Quentin

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Douglas Count Bigot de Saint-Quentin

Douglas Count Bigot de Saint-Quentin (born April 19, 1899 in Brandeis an der Elbe ; † September 10, 1982 in Vienna ) was an Austrian entomologist who was one of the most important in the German-speaking area, especially in the field of odonatology . He has published over 50 papers in this field.

biography

Since his father Anatol Graf St. Quentin was in Brandeis as a dragoon colonel in the garrison, Douglas was born there, but the family immediately moved to Pressburg , then to Vienna. Here he attended school, with zoology and botany being his preferred subjects. Quentin created a considerable herbarium at that time, but did not collect beetles or butterflies, but snails and mussels. On June 22, 1918, he passed the final exam at the Mödling secondary school with unanimous vote.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of Vienna, first in law , but did not like the dry material and switched to studying zoology and palaeontology . His teachers were Berthold Hatschek , Jan Versluys (zoologist) and Otto Storch . The latter had suggested an odonatological topic for his doctoral thesis (structure and function of the odonate's egg apparatus), which Bigot was happy to accept. After passing all exams with distinction, St. Quentin received his doctorate on June 27, 1929.

After completing his doctorate, St. Quentin worked as a guest at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, but was drafted into the German armed forces in 1942, where he served as an air force medic on the Russian front . After returning from war and Soviet imprisonment, he taught biology for a few years at the high school graduation "Vienna" and then, from 1959, on the basis of a research grant from the Austrian Ministry of Education, he worked in the collection of the Natural History Museum.

Of his more than 50 works, the following should be emphasized: the first evidence of territorial behavior in dragonflies, which took place in 1934; the contributions to the form and function of the cleaning, catching and egg laying apparatus; the investigation of problems related to the history of distribution, such as the boreo-alpine and marginal form distribution; evidence of new, widely isolated sites, such as Selysiothemis nigra in Dalmatia and Cordulegaster charpentieri in Lower Austria ; the description of about 20 species and one genus.

family

Douglas Bigot de St. Quentin, wife of Elisabeth von Wagner

Douglas, son of the general of the cavalry Anatol and Helene von Flondor , married Elisabeth (born June 15, 1904 in Odessa, † September 2, 1985 in Vienna), granddaughter of Lieutenant Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Wagner, in Vienna on February 11, 1926 (March 9, 1835 - December 6, 1928). The marriage remained childless.

Publications (selection)

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the odonate fauna of Franzensbad, Entomologischer Anzeiger Nr. 10, Vienna 1930
  • Contribution to the odonate fauna of the Bukovina, Buletinul stiintific Cernauti No. 6, Chernivtsi 1932
  • The cleaning apparatus of the Odonaten in Konowia (Vienna) No. 6, Vienna 1936
  • The European odonates with boreoalpine distribution in Zoogeographica 3, 1938
  • The races of the Cordolegaster boltonii (Donovan) (Odonata) in Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt Österreichischer und Schweizer Entomologen 4, 1952
  • Fundamental to the nomenclature problem in Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt Österreichischer und Schweizer Entomologen 6, 1954
  • A new Phyllogomphus from East Africa (Odonata) in Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt Österreichischer und Schweizer Entomologen 10, 1958
  • On the problem of the boreo-alpine distribution in Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt Österreichischer und Schweizer Entomologen 11, 1959
  • Catalogus Faunae Austriae, Part XII c: Odonata (Libellen) Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1959, ISBN 3-7001-1025-1
  • Cleaning processes in dragonflies in Entomological News Gazette Austrian and Swiss Entomologists 13, 1961
  • On the systematic position of the Enalagma granti Mc Lachlan, Munich Entomological Society, Munich 1963
  • "Territoriality in dragonflies (Odonata) - results and prospects", Munich Entomological Society, Munich 1964
  • Fringing distribution in odonates in Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt Österreichischer und Schweizer Entomologen 17, 1965
  • On the odonata fauna of Anatolia and the adjacent areas in the annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna 68, 1965
  • Handbook of Zoology: Odonata (dragonflies), Verlag de Gruyter, Munich 1968
  • Development tendencies in the wing veins of the odonata Ent. Dep. Mus. Dresden 32: 311-339, 1967
  • Superorder Libelluloidea and 6th order Odonata (dragonflies) in Handbuch der Zoologie, 4th volume (together with Max Beier), 1968
  • Odonata (dragonflies) in Handbuch der Zoologie, 4th volume "Arthropoda", 2nd half "Insecta" 1969
  • Catalog of the Odonata types in the Natural History Museum Vienna, Natural History Museum Vienna 1970

literature

  • Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook, Deutsches Adelsarchiv, Committee for Nobility Law Issues of the German Aristocratic Associations, German Nobility Law Committee: “Genealogical Handbook of the Adels”, Volume 112, Verlag CA Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1997.
  • Wiener genealogisches Taschenbuch, Verlag H. von Stratowa, Vienna 1928.
  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1912, p. 118.
  • “Odonatologica” 3 (1) of March 1, 1974, Vienna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Odonatologica" 3 (1) of March 1, 1974, pp. 1-4
  2. ↑ Dr. phil. Douglas St. Quentin on ZOBODAT
  3. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: "The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918", Austrian State Archives, Vienna 2007, p. 196
  4. ^ Karl Heinrich David Bauer: "Family tree of the Wagner family: (descendants of Georg Wagner around 1600, dyers and traders in Calw)", A. Oelschläger'sche Buchdruckerei, Calw 1936, p. 93
  5. ↑ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook, Deutsches Adelsarchiv, Committee for Nobility Law Issues of the German Nobility Associations, German Nobility Law Committee: “Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels”, Volume 112, Verlag CA Starke, Limburg ad Lahn 1997, p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Bigot de Saint-Quentin, Douglas of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES St. Quentin, Douglas (author name); Bigot de Saint-Quentin, Count Douglas of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian odonatologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandeis on the Elbe
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1982
Place of death Vienna