Felix Bryk
Felix Bryk (born January 21, 1882 in Vienna ; † January 13, 1957 in Stockholm ) was an Austro-Swedish entomologist and anthropologist .
Live and act
Felix Bryk was enthusiastic about insects from an early age . His father Adolf Bryk, a lawyer from Kolbuszowa / Galicia, initially considered this to be a juvenile enthusiasm. Felix Bryk completed an art degree at the Krakow Academy and published his first scientific work in 1906. He moved to Paris and Florence, where he met his first wife Aino Mäkinen, whom he married in 1909. Parallel to his artistic training, he continued to study insects intensively, especially the Lepidoptera (butterflies).
During the First World War , Bryk went to Sweden . He exhibited his works and published articles on entomology ( entomology ) and Linnaeus' life. He edited unknown texts by Carl von Linné (1707–1778), Linné's Minnesbok (Stockholm, 1919), HA Müller's Delineatio Regni Animalium (Stockholm, 1920), Linné's Adonis Stenbrohultensis (Stockholm, 1920), Linné's marginal notes on Maria Sibylla Merianin's Erucarum ortus (Stuttgart, 1920) and also an analysis of the Linnaeus library (Stockholm, 1923). He was also interested in the macrolepidoptera (large butterflies) and published Basics of Sphragidology (1918) and Bibliotheca Sphragidologica (1920).
From 1924 to 1926 Bryk stayed in East Africa, where he researched the butterflies there. At the same time he conducted ethnological studies and examined sexual relationships in the population. Bryk published the results in Neger-Eros , which was translated into English and reprinted several times. He completed his observations in museums in Paris and London and in 1931 published The Circumcision in Men and Women . At the beginning of World War II , Bryk went back to Sweden. Divorced in the meantime, he married Ella Claudia Krusche in 1939. In the 1940s and 1950s Bryk worked a lot at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. In 1951 he brought together his interest in questions of sexuality as well as in the person of Linnaeus and published Linnaeus as a sexualist .
In an obituary he is described as a scientific cosmopolitan who had the gift to be able to present science in an understandable way.
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Bryk in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bryk, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Swedish entomologist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1957 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |