Gustav Mayr

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Gustav Mayr

Gustav Ludwig Mayr (born October 12, 1830 in Vienna ; † July 14, 1908 there ) was an Austrian teacher, beetle collector and entomologist .

Life

After finishing high school and the philosophical faculty, Mayr studied medicine and joined the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna as a student in 1851 . In 1856 he received his doctorate in medicine and passed the teaching examination for natural history and chemistry for middle school. In the same year Mayr became a teacher of natural history at the Oberrealschule in Pest . In 1861 he lost his position due to the Magyarization of the German secondary schools in Hungary, moved to Vienna and got a position as professor of natural history there in 1863, which he held until his retirement in 1892. At the time of his retirement, Mayr received the title of Imperial Councilor , having been awarded the Golden Cross of Merit with Crown in 1876 .

Mayr already dealt with entomology when he was a student , his special field of work was the order of the hymenoptera (hymenoptera) and his special interest was myrmecological systematics . In 1896 he donated his hemipteran collection of 1350 species, 5500 pieces in total, to the Imperial and Royal Court Museum in Vienna. The ant collection, comprising 2180 species, and other collections, he disposed of in his will to the Imperial and Royal Zoological and Botanical Society in Vienna, which, as it does not create any scientific zoological collections, sold it to the Natural History Court Museum. Mayr received the Medal of Merit from the international jury for the exhibition of his collections on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 .

With Mayria Forel (1879), Eumayria Ashmead (1887) and Mayriella Forel (1902) three generic names of the Hymenoptera bear his name. Around 50 species in the most varied of insect groups bear the specific epithet Mayri.

Publications (selection)

  • The European formicides: with a lithographic tablet. 1861.
  • Formicidae [of the Novara expedition ]. Vienna 1865.
  • The ants of the Baltic amber. Königsberg: Koch, 1868.
  • Fig insects. Vienna: Hölder, 1885.
  • Hymenopterological miscelles. Vienna: Hölder, 1902.
  • Formicids from Egypt and Sudan. 1903.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayr, Gustav L .; Mayr, Gustav Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, beetle collector and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1908
Place of death Vienna