Karl Brunner-von Wattenwyl
Karl Friedrich Brunner von Wattenwyl (born June 13, 1823 in Bern , Switzerland ; † August 24, 1914 in Kirchdorf-Neukematen , Austria-Hungary ) was a well-known Swiss naturalist , physicist , geologist , director of the Telegraph Office in Vienna and entomologist . Throughout his life he mainly dealt with jumping horrors and ghost horrors .
Life
After completing primary school, he began studying natural sciences, in which he mainly devoted himself to physical phenomena: he studied physics and geology at the universities of Geneva , Bern and Berlin . In 1846 he received his doctorate in philosophy. In the years 1850–1855 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Bern . Already in 1851 he started in Switzerland , the Telegraph introduce.
During a stay abroad in Greece and Turkey he collected new species of jumping horror and described new species and subspecies from these orders .
His insect collection is in the Natural History Museum Vienna .
Brunner was married from 1850 to Emilie Elisa von Wattenwyl (1831–1895). In 1880 he was knighted in Austria, and in 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
The monumental portrait of Brunner made by the painter Hans Temple is in the collection of the Jegenstorf Castle Foundation .
Fonts
- Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna 1865. Archives
- Monograph of the Phaneropterids. Vienna 1878. Archives
- Prodromus of the European Orthoptera. Leipzig 1882. (xxxii + 466 pp + 11 pls. + 4 map.) PDF
- Révision du système des orthoptères et description des espèces rapportées . Geneva 1893 Archives
- Reflections on the blaze of color in insects . Leipzig 1897 Archives
- The insect family of the phasmids. Vol. 2. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini) . pp. 181-340, pls. 7-15. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907. Archive , online (PDF; 41.9 MB)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Brunner von Wattenwyl, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, pp. 149–151 ( digitized version ).
- JAG Rehn, in: Entomol. News. Philadelphia 26.1915, 285-288. ISSN 0013-872X
- Max Beier: Brunner von Wattenwyl, Karl Ritter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 684 ( digitized version ).
- DP Brock, in: Catalogs of the scientific collections of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Entomology. Vienna Volume 13.1998, Volume 5. (Catalog of type specimens of Stick - and Leaf - Insects in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Insecta: Phasmida), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 8–9)
- G. Nonveiller: The Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb 1999. ISBN 953-6645-04-1 (Biographical Notes: BRUNNER, Dr. Karl von Wattenwyl (1823–1914), 153, 368 + portrét.)
- Brunner von Wattenwyl, Karl Ritter. in: W. Killy et al. (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE). Bd 2. KG Saur, Munich 1999, 171. ISBN 3-598-23160-1
Web links
- Therese Steffen Gerber: Brunner [-von Wattenwyl], Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Holdings in the burger library in Bern
- Publications by and about Karl Brunner-von Wattenwyl in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brunner-von Wattenwyl, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brunner-von Wattenwyl, Karl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1914 |
| Place of death | Vienna |