Friedrich Moritz Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer (born May 12, 1832 in Vienna , † December 29, 1904 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician and entomologist .

He was one of the founders of the renowned zoological-botanical association in Vienna in 1851. From 1876 he was custodian for two-winged (Diptera) and net-winged (Neuroptera, including the dragonflies or Odonata, which at that time still belonged to this group) at the entomological collection Natural History Museum in Vienna , whose director he was from 1898 until his death. From 1884 he was a full professor at the University of Vienna . Between 1850 and 1901 he wrote 189 publications, v. a. about Neuroptera (e.g. the "Neuroptera austriaca" 1857), Mecoptera (mud flies), Diptera and the phylogeny and systematics of insects.

Fonts

• Third report on the dragonellulins collected on the world voyage of the Imperial frigate Novara.

literature

• Max Beier:  Brewer, Friedrich Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 541 ( digitized version ).
• Brewer Friedrich Moritz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 108.

• Franz Steindachner: Notes. Annual report for 1904 . In: Annals of the Imperial and Royal Court Museum of Natural History . Volume XX, 1905, pp. 1–3 online (PDF; 289 kB)
• Anton Handlirsch: Friedrich Moritz Bauer . In: Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges . Vienna 1905, pp. 129–166 online (PDF; 2.8 MB)
• Note . In: Wiener Entomologische Zeitung . 1905 online (PDF; 75 kB)