Horst Aspöck

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Horst Aspöck (born July 21, 1939 in Budweis ) is an Austrian parasitologist and entomologist .

Life

Horst Aspöck was born in what was then the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . After the end of the war, the family moved to Linz , where Horst Aspöck spent his school days and passed his Matura in 1957 . Aspöck had been a member of the Entomological Working Group at the Upper Austrian State Museum since he was 13 and initially dealt with butterflies, influenced by Ernst Reichl , among others .

Aspöck studied biology at the University of Innsbruck with a major in zoology and a minor in botany. His academic teachers were the limnologist and phylogenetic Otto Steinböck (1893-1969), the ecologist and entomologist Heinz Janetschek (1913-1997) and the botanists Arthur Pisek (1893-1975) and Helmut Gams . Aspöck received his doctorate in 1962 at the Zoological Institute of the University of Innsbruck under the ecotoxicologist Hannes an der Lan (1909–1982).

Aspöck then went to the University of Vienna , built up the Department of Medical Parasitology in the Hygiene Institute there since 1966, completed his habilitation in 1970 and was appointed Professor of Medical Parasitology on January 1, 2000. In September 2004 he retired.

Horst Aspöck married his fellow student Ulrike Pirklbauer in 1963 . Her only son Christoph (* 1965) is a medical doctor and heads the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the St. Pölten University Hospital .

Horst Aspöck is a member of numerous scientific societies. In 1975 he and Hans Malicky started to found the Austrian Entomological Society , of which he was president from 1990 to 1993. The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina elected Horst Aspöck as its member in 2000.

In addition to his work on parasitology, Hans Aspöck is known worldwide for his work on entomology, which he mainly publishes together with his wife Ulrike. This includes work on the taxonomy and biology of reticulated winged species (Neuropteroida), in particular camel neck flies (Raphidioptera) and large- winged flies (Megaloptera), as well as work on animal geography and the history of entomology. In 1995 Ulrike and Horst Aspöck received the Meigen Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology for their entomological work .

Works (selection)

  • Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Aspöck, Herbert Hölzel: The Neuroptera of Europe: a comprehensive presentation of the systematics, ecology and chorology of the Neuropteroidea (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Planipennia) of Europe. Goecke and Evers, Krefeld 1980. ISBN 3-87263-028-8 .
  • Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Aspöck: Neuropterida (Neuropteroidea, Neuroptera sensu lato), orders 2830. In: Holger Heinrich Dathe (Hrsgb.): 5th part: Insecta. In: Textbook of Special Zoology (founded by Alfred Kaestner ). Second edition. Volume I: Invertebrates. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2003. Pages 540-884 and 887-892. ISBN 978-3-8274-0930-0 .
  • Theodor Hiepe (ed.), Horst Aspöck: General Parasitology. Parey, Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 978-3-8304-4101-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Korad Thaler (2004): Univ.-Prof. Dr. Horst Aspöck - 65 years. Denisia 13: 15-21.
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Schaller (2004): Horst Aspöck 65. Denisia 13: 3-4.
  3. ↑ Horst Aspöck: Biological properties of Sevin (1-naphthyl-N-methylcarbamate). Dissertation University of Innsbruck 1962.
  4. ↑ Hannes an der Lan, Horst Aspöck (1962): Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde 35 (12): 180-182. doi : 10.1007 / BF01881890
  5. ↑ Michael Ohl (2016): Horst Aspöck, encyclopedist and entomologist extraordinaire - a personal appreciation. ZooKeys 555: 137-151. doi : 10.3897 / zookeys.555.7410
  6. ↑ Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 20, 2018) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stpoelten.lknoe.at
  7. ↑ Horst Aspöck in the Leopoldina's directory of members (accessed on January 20, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Aspöck, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian parasitologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceske Budejovice