Georg von Frauenfeld

Georg von Frauenfeld, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1857

Grave in the cemetery in Hinterbrühl

Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld (born June 3, 1807 in Vienna ; † October 8, 1873 ibid) was a k. k. Austrian natural scientist and zoologist specializing in entomology and malacology . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Frauenf. ".

Frauenfeld was the custodian of the mollusc collection in what was then the "kk Zoologischer Hof-Cabinet" (today: Natural History Museum Vienna ). In 1851 he founded the “Zoological-Botanical Society” in Vienna and from 1857 to 1859 took part in the Novara expedition . In 1868 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Frauenfeld is buried at the cemetery in Hinterbrühl in Lower Austria.

Memberships and honors

• 1860 Austrian Imperial Leopold Order III. Class and elevation to the hereditary knighthood
• 1868 Vice-President and editor of the publications of the "Association for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge", Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

• About a new genus of flies: Raymondia, from the Coriaceae family, along with a description of two species of the same . In: session area. Akad. Wiss. Vienna . tape 18 , 1855, pp. 320-333 .
• The algae of the Dalmatian coast, with 26 large-format color panels . Vienna 1855.
• About the paludins from the group of Paludina viridis Poir. - Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Vienna, mathem.-naturwiss. Classe, 22: 569-578, 1 T. 1857.
• Journey from Shanghai to Sydney on the kk frigate Novara . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Association in Vienna . tape 9 . Vienna 1859, p. 374-382 .
• Notes collected during my stay in New Holland, New Zealand and Taiti while Sr. Majesty Frigate Novara was sailing in those waters (presented at the session on October 13, 1859) . In: Session reports of the mathematical and natural science class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna . 23 to 28, 1860, pp. 717-732 .
• Report on further processing of the Novara collections and continuation of the diagnosis of new lepidoptera by Dr. Fields . 1861.
• About Scenopinus and Platypeza . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Association in Vienna . tape 14 , 1864, p. 65-69 .
• Eggs in an Australian fern . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Association in Vienna . tape 14 , 1864, p. 383-384 .
• Zoological miscelles. XI. In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna . tape 17 , 1867, p. 425-502 .
• Zoological miscelles. XV. In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna . tape 18 , 1868, p. 885-899 .
• The basics of the Bird Protection Act . Vienna 1871 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Frauenfeld, Georg Ritter von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, p. 381 ( digitized version ).
• Julius Victor Carus :  Frauenfeld, Georg Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 320.
• Frauenfeld Georg von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 354 f. (Direct links on p. 354 , p. 355 ).

Web links

• About the Novara expedition
• Author entry at IPNI