Franz Xaver Fever

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Franz Xaver Fever

Franz Xaver Fieber (born March 1, 1807 in Prague , † February 22, 1872 in Chrudim ( Bohemia )) was a Bohemian, k. k. Austrian entomologist . He was one of the internationally important entomologists of the 19th century, on whose work modern entomology is based. From 1847 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Fever "; earlier it was also the abbreviation “ Fieb. " in use.

Life

From 1824 to 1828 Fieber studied at the Polytechnic Institute at the University of Prague and attended lectures on economics, administrative science and the new language, as well as on zoology and botany. His career was shaped by the influence of the natural scientists Karl and Jan Svatopluk Presl , Johann Christian Mikan (1769–1844), Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (1793–1848) and Vincenz Franz Kosteletzky (1801–1887). He gave up his job as a camerawoman and technologist to devote himself to biological studies, but in 1832 he became a civil servant at the Prague Court of Appeal and later a district court director in Chrudim.

During his biological career, Fieber initially dealt with botany and illustrated floristic works, among others by Karl Presl, Jakob Sturm and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg . From 1832 he increasingly dealt with entomology, in particular with the research of the "half-winged" (today Schnabelkerfe ) and Geradflügler (today grasshoppers , cockroaches , catchers and ghosts ). He received his doctorate in absentia in 1848 on submission of five publications and three manuscripts at the Philosophical Faculty in Jena. His major work, The European Hemiptera. Half-wing. (Rhynchota Heteroptera) , in which he first described around 200 species of bugs, appeared in 1860; Supplements were published in 1864, 1868 and 1870. His collection is now at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

Works (selection)

  • 1851: Genera Hydrocoridum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita. Treatises of the Royal. Bohemian Society of Sciences, 5 (7): 181–211
  • 1858: Criteria for the generic division of Phytocoriden (Capsini aut.). Wiener Entomological Monthly, 2: 329–347.
  • 1860: The European Hemiptera. Half-wing. (Rhynchota heteroptera). 444 pp. Carl Gerold's son (Vienna)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ilse Jahn:  Fieber, Franz Xaver. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 138 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Dr. Franz Xaver Fieber on ZOBODAT
personal data
SURNAME Fever, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1872
Place of death Chrudim