Franz Ocskay of Ocskö

Franz Ocskay von Ocskö (* 1775 ; † August 6, 1851 ) was a Hungarian entomologist .

Life

Baron Franz LB Ocskay was born as the son of Major General Joseph Ocskay von Ocskö (* 1740 in Ocska; † 1805 in Dubova ( Banat )). He lived in Ödenburg (today Sopron ) and is known, among other things, for describing new insect species, for example the little golden insect .

Memberships

Franz Ocskay von Ocskö was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1830 . When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

Fonts

1826: Gryllorum Hungariae indigenorum species aliquot. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Hall) 13 (1): 407-410.
1832: Orthoptera nova. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Hall) 16 (2): 959–962.
1844: About the location of rare insects. Official Report Naturf. Ges. Graez 4: 181.
1850: Toussaint von Charpentier 's last insect illustration. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Hall) 20 (2): 6 pages. (with Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ).

literature

Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Ocskay (Oczkai) von Ocska, Franz Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, p. 475 f. ( Digitized version ).
Walther Horn & Sigmund Schenkling: Index Litteraturae Entomologicae. Series I: The world literature on all of entomology up to and including 1863 . Berlin 1928.

Web links

Nekrolog in Allgemeine Zeitung Munich: 1851, 11

Individual evidence

↑ member entry of Franz Ocskay of Ockskö at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 2 February 2016th
↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 261
^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 191.

personal data
SURNAME	Ocskay from Ocskö, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ockskay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1775
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1851

[1] r entry of Franz Ocskay of Ockskö at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 2 February 2016th

[2] JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 261

[sc191-3] Société Cuvierienne, p. 191.