Gabriel Höfner senior

Gabriel Hoefner

Gabriel Höfner Sr. (* May 16, 1842 in Türnitz , Lower Austria ; † March 4, 1921 in Wolfsberg , Carinthia ) was an Austrian entomologist , musician and composer .

Life

Gabriel Höfner was born as the son of master glassmaker Vinzenz Höfner in Türnitz in Lower Austria on May 16, 1842. The highly gifted boy, who was already fully literate at the age of five, was apprenticed to a watchmaker in Stein an der Donau when he was 12 years old. After his apprenticeship years in Stein ad Donau and Neulengbach, he came to Klagenfurt as an assistant in 1860 and to Wolfsberg in 1861 . Here he became self-employed as a watchmaker and also found a connection to the band of the 12th Infantry Regiment, which was then garrisoned in Wolfsberg, and thus a welcome field of activity for his high musical skills.

In 1865 he put together a band for which he, who had never had regular music lessons, wrote various compositions such as dance pieces, male choirs and military marches. For various musical circles he co-founded, such as B. a wind quintet and a string sextet, he created not only instrumentation but also his own compositions.

In 1891 he became a music teacher at the newly founded Wolfsberg Music School. He devoted his free time to butterfly studies, where he also achieved remarkable achievements, also here as an autodidact. He researched the Lavanttal, the Koralpe and Saualpe , for which areas he identified over 1,600 species, including some new ones that he himself described. His work forms one of the foundations for lepidopterology in Carinthia. He came to botany through caterpillar breeding and also acquired extensive knowledge here.

Services

Gabriel Höfner wrote the first butterfly fauna in Carinthia. Beginning in 1910, the Carinthian butterflies appeared in the yearbook of the Natural History Museum and in Carinthia II , the last part posthumously in 1922. He described the following taxa on lepidoptera : Micropterix aureoviredella (Höfner, 1898); Montanima karavankensis (Höfner, 1888); Elachista albicapilla (Hofner, 1918); Elachista argentifasciella (Hofner, 1898).

Gabriel Höfner discovered a new saxifrage species in the Pressinggraben with "Waldsteinia vernata". A small butterfly that he discovered on the Zirbitzkogel bears his name "Gnophua operaria Hoefneri".

He was the director of the Wolfsberg Music School, played several instruments and also composed.

Works

Compositions

The list is not complete as not all sheet music is available. Information about the date and opus was taken from the original sheet music, some of this information is missing from the original.

Gabriel Hoefner - Tones from Carinthia

• Trio Polka, 1861
• Swing Polka, 1863
• Evening Thoughts Waltz, 1864
• Wolfsberger Tanzweise, composed in October 1869, set for orchestra in April 1905
• Lisl, Polka francaise, 1874
• Ice sport Quadrille, January 1886
• Horn Quintet, Op. 26th
• Sounds from Carinthia, Waltz for Pianoforte, Op. 33
• I love me, Polka francaise, October 1877, Op. 34
• Vivat my Austria !, March, Op. 39
• For the fire brigade, Polka francaise for pianoforte, Op. 42
• At the green Lavant, Waltz, Op. 44
• Zum Kränzchen, Polka francaise, October 1904, Op. 50
• German Alpine Greetings, Waltz, Op. 52

Gabriel Hoefner - German Alpine Greetings

• Just happy, Polka francaise, Op. 54
• Rags Polka, date / opus unknown
• The companion to rest, funeral march, date / opus unknown

Publications

• The butterflies of the Lavant Valley and the two Alps "Kor and Saualpe" (Papilio - Eupithecia). Year d. natural Provincial Museum of Carinthia, issue XII, 1876, p. 1.
• The butterflies of the Lavantthales etc. (microlepidoptera and addendum to the macrolepidopteran fauna) ibidem volume XIII, 1878, p. 113. (New description of Erebia arete ab. Albofasciata.)
• The butterflies of the Lavantthales (1st addendum.) Ibidem booklet XIV, 1880, p. 259.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (II. Addendum.) Ibidem Booklet XV, 1882, p. 193.
• Observations on the occurrence and way of life of various types of butterflies, especially those that inhabit mountains and the Alps. Viennese entomol. Newspaper, Volume II, 1883, p. 189, 221, 245, 277.
• The Butterflies of the Lavantthales (III. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XVI, 1884, p. 162.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (IV. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XVII, 1885, p. 217.
• The Butterflies of the Lavantthales (5th addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XVIII, 1886.
• Corrections and additions to the lepidopteran catalog by Dr. Staudinger and Dr. Wock. Societ. entom. I. Jhrg., 1886. p. 41, 50-51, 59-60, 69, 75-76, 82-83, 93, 106, 114, 131-132, 169-170; II. Year, 1887, p. 12-13, 20-21, 44, 51-52, 65, 75-76, 91-92, 101, 106.
• Three renamed butterfly amendments. Soc. entom., Volume II, 1887, p. 121. (Erebia eriphyle ab. Impunctata, Epineuronia cespitis ab. Ferruginea, Agrotis forcipula-v. Nigrèscens.)
• Contribution to the natural history of Gnophos ambiguata Dup. Soc. entom. Volume II, 1887, p. 131-132.
• Peculiarities of the butterfly and description of the young caterpillar of Erebia arete F. Soc. entom. III. Vintage, 1888, p. 10-11.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (VI. Supplement.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XIX (Volume XXXVI), 1888, p. 113.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (VII. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Book XX (Year XXXVII), 1889, p. 156.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (V1II. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XXI (Volume XXXVIII), 1890, p. 269. (Rewritten: Cabera exanthcmqta ab. Bistrigata, Incurvaria trimaculella ab. Quadrimaculella.)
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (IX. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XXIII (Jhrg. XLI and XL11), 1895, p. 68.
• Contribution to the butterfly fauna of the Petzen. Yearbook etc., booklet XXIII, 1895, p. 74.
• Hiptelia lorezi Stgr. and the species diversity of Cidaria soldarid Turati and candidata SV Soc. entom. IX. Jhrg., 1895, p. 177.
• The Butterflies of Lavantthales (X. Addendum.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XXIV (Volume XLIII and XLIV), 1897, p. t65. [Rewritten: Abraxas marginata ab. mediofasrciata (p. 168) and Syrichthus serratulae. tarasoides (p. 166)].
• I. Addendum to the butterfly fauna of the Petzen. Jahrb. Etc., Booklet XXIV, 1897, p. 171. [Newly described: Mamestra chrysozona var. Turbida (p. 174)].
• Three new butterfly species. Soc. entom. XIII. Volume, 1899, No. 9 p. 65-66, No. 10 p. 73-74. (Rebelia karawankensis, Elachista argentifasciella, Micropteryx aureoviridelta.)
• The Butterflies of the Lavantthales (XI. Supplement.) Yearbook etc., Booklet XXVI Volume XLVII, 1900, p. 247.
• The butterflies of the Lavantthales (XU. Addendum.) Carinthia, Mitteil. of the natural historian. Landesmus, for Carinthia, 93rd year, 1903, p. 177.
• The butterflies of Carinthia. Yearbook of the naturh. Provincial Museum of Carinthia, Volume XLVIII, 1905, p. 179-416.
• The Butterflies of Carinthia (Part II) ibidem, Volume XLIX, 1909, p. 1-120.
• I. Addendum to the butterfly fauna of Carinthia. Carinthia, Volume II 101 ,. 1911, No. 1 and 2, p. 18-46.
• U. Addendum on the butterfly fauna of Carinthia (from 1910 on). Carinthia, Volume II 105, 1915.

literature

• Hofner Gabriel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 354 f. (Direct links on p. 354 , p. 355 ).

Web links

• Gabriel Höfner on ZOBODAT
• Dr. Zweigelt: Gabriel_Höfner † In: Journal of the Austrian Entomologists Association. Volume 6, No. 6 from June 1, 1921, pp. 25–26, PDF on ZOBODAT .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hofner Gabriel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 354 f. (Direct links on p. 354 , p. 355 ).
2. ↑ Gabriel Höfner. In: Rudolfinum. Yearbook of the State Museum of Carinthia. Volume 2003, p. 428, PDF on ZOBODAT (short biography).
3. ↑ Erich Oberländer, Wolfsberg bis 1973 - Information on the history of the city of Wolfsberg ( Memento from March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Website by Erich Oberländer. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
4. ^ Writings by Gabriel Höfner. In: Journal of the Austrian Entomologists Association. Volume 6, No. 6 from June 1, 1921, p. 26, online at ZOBODAT .