Hans Reisser

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Hans Reisser (March 20, 1896 - April 23, 1976 ) was an Austrian printer and lepidopterist .

Life

Reisser spent his childhood and youth in Vienna and learned French at an early age in addition to his mother tongue. After graduating from the humanistic Franz-Josef-Gymnasium , he began studying at the Export Academy, today's Vienna University of Economics , but had to interrupt it after the First World War broke out. In 1918 he returned to Vienna as a lieutenant in the reserve with awards. There he trained as a book printer , joined the family business Christoph Reisser's Sons and became print shop manager, but had to interrupt this activity due to the Second World War . After the war and as a prisoner of war, he converted the company into a stock corporation in 1962 . In parallel to his business activities, Reisser has been occupied with entomology , especially butterflies, from a young age . His scientific mentor in this area was Karl Schawerda . He was promoted by the entomologists Hans Rebel and Hans Zerny . His specialties included the moths, which were still called small butterflies ( Microlepidoptera ) during his active time, as well as the spanners (Geometridae). In addition to local faunistic studies, Reisser undertook a total of 29 collecting and research trips, most of which took him to the Mediterranean region, twelve of them to Crete . Together with Hans Georg Amsel and František Gregor he started as co-editor of the multi-volume encyclopedia Microlepidoptera Palaearctica .

In 1944 Reisser became an honorary member of the Vienna Entomological Society and from 1946 its chairman. In recognition of his many years of work in the Entomological Department, the Museum Alexander König awarded him the title of “Scientific Assistant at the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig”.

The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe bought in 1976 the famous Butterfly Collection "Reisser" with over 100,000 copies. It contains, among other things, a special collection Geometridae with a focus on Sterrhinae .

Fonts (selection)

Reisser wrote 144 papers on entomological topics. These include faunistic works and descriptions of shapes, for example:

  • A new form by Parnassius mnemosyne L. , Journal of the Austrian Entomological Association 9, 1924, pp. 60-63
  • A notable aberration from Cerura bifida Hb. , Journal of the Austrian Entomological Association 10, 1925, pp. 93-94
  • Collection results from Andalusia with special consideration of the Sierra Nevada , negotiations of the imperial-royal zoological-botanical society in Vienna 77, 1927, pp. 64–68
  • Autumn light catching from lepidoptera in Corsica , negotiations of the imperial-royal zoological-botanical society in Vienna 80, 1930, pp. 32–44
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Sterrhinae (Lep., Geom.) II. Codonia (Cosymbia) ariadne spec. Nov. , Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologische Verein 24, 1939, pp. 169–170
  • Lepidoptera from the Aegean Islands , Journal of the Entomological Society of Vienna 31, 1947, pp. 44–59
  • On the lepidopteran fauna of Lower Austria: two heteroceras new for Austria , Journal of the Wiener Entomologische Gesellschaft 36, 1951, pp. 130-134
  • Microlepidoptera from Lower Austria and Lake Neusiedl , Journal of the Vienna Entomological Society, 44, 1959, pp. 33-39
  • Dasypolia templi Thunberg in northern Lower and Upper Austria (Lep., Noct.) , Journal of the Vienna Entomological Society 49, 1964, pp. 65-67
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Sterrhinae (Lep. Geometridae), VIII. (List of the species collected by Dr. U. Roesler in Northern Greece and Western Asia Minor.) , Entomological Journal Frankfurt am Main 81, 1971, pp. 21-24

Taxa named after Reisser (selection)

Some butterfly species and subspecies were named in honor of Reisser. This includes:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b W. Glaser: Kommerzialrat Hans Reisser - 70 years , magazine of the Vienna Entomological Society, 51st year, 1966, pp. 48–52
  2. ↑ a b c d R. Ulrich Roesler: Kommerzialrat Hans Reisser and his entomological life's work , contribution to natural history research in southwest Germany, Karlsruhe, volume 36, 1977, pp. 35–42
personal data
SURNAME Reisser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entomologist and printer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1896
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1976