Gabriel Strobl

Gabriel Strobl

Gabriel Strobl (born November 3, 1846 in Unzmarkt , Styria , † March 15, 1925 in Admont Abbey ) was a k. k. and k. u. k. Austrian priest, botanist and entomologist .

Life

Gabriel Strobl grew up with his aunt in Rottenmann after the death of his mother . In 1866, at the age of 20, he became a priest at the Admont Benedictine monastery . A devastating fire in 1865 fell victim to the natural history cabinet of the monastery, which had included Joseph Stammel's universe . Abbot Karlmann Hieber (term of office 1861–1868) entrusted him with the reconstruction of the natural history museum. In 44 years of work - up to a stroke in 1910 - Gabriel Strobl built a new collection. He devoted the first 12 years of his work mainly to botany before devoting himself entirely to entomology for 32 years. Even though his published work mainly deals with the two-winged species (diptera, i.e. flies and mosquitoes), he also worked on hymenoptera and beetles of the Balkan peninsula (which until 1918 partly belonged to Austria-Hungary ) .

Fonts

• 1880. Dipterological finds around Seitenstetten. A contribution to the fauna of Lower Austria . In: Program of the imperial-royal high school of the Benedectines in Seitenstetten. Vol. 14, pp. 3-65.
• 1893. Contributions to the Diptera fauna of the Austrian Littorale. In: Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. Vol. 12, pp. 29-42, 74-80, 89-108, 121-136 and 161-170.
• 1894. The Diptera of Styria. In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 30 (1893), pp. 1-152.
• 1898. The Diptera of Styria. 4th part: Supplements. In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 34 (1897), pp. 192-298.
• 1898. Fauna diptera Bosne, Hercegovine I Dalmacie. In: Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini. Vol. 10, pp. 387-466, 562-616 (in Serbian).
• 1900. Diptera fauna of Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia. In: Scientific reports from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vol. 7, pp. 552-670 (extended German version of the article from 1898).
• 1900. Spanish Diptera. 9th part. In: Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. Vol. 19, pp. 61-70.
• 1900-04. Ichneumonidae Styria (and neighboring countries). 4 volumes, Graz
• 1901. Tief's dipterological estate from Carinthia and Austria-Silesia. In: Yearbook of the Natural History Museum of Carinthia. Vol. 26 (1900), pp. 171-246.
• 1902. Novi prilozi fauni diptera Balkanskog poluostrva. In: Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini. Vol. 14, pp. 461-517.
• 1904. New contributions to the Diptera fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. In: Scientific reports from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vol. 9, pp. 519-581 (German translation of the article from 1902).
• 1906. Spanish Diptera. Part 2. In: Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Segunda Epoca. Vol. 3 (1905), pp. 271-42.
• 1909, with Leander Czerny : Spanish Diptera. 3rd contribution. In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 121-310.
• 1910. The Diptera of Styria. 2nd addendum. In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 46 (1909), pp. 45-293.

Collections

The two-winged beetles and beetles (with the exception of exotic, ie non-European species) collected by Strobl are in the Natural History Museum of Admont Abbey , as are all the butterflies. The exotic beetles and cicadas as well as all hymenoptera are in the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz . The hoverflies (via HR Meyer) are in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt .

literature

• G. Unterberger:  Strobl P. Gabriel (Karl). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 414 f. (Direct links on p. 414 , p. 415 ).
• R. Contreras-Lichtenberg: The history of dipterology at the Vienna Natural History Museum. In: Denisia. Vol. 8, 2003, pp. 47-55 (6 photos).
• F. Gusenleitner: Wild bee research in Austria. In: Catalogs of Oberösterr. National Museum NF. Vol. 10, 1991, pp. 103-153.

swell

• History of the Natural History Museum. Admont Abbey.