Karl Maria Heller

Karl Maria Heller (born March 21, 1864 in Rappoltenkirchen , † December 26, 1945 in Dresden ) was an Austro-German zoologist .

Life

Karl Maria Heller was born on March 21, 1864 as the son of the natural scientist Karl Bartholomäus Heller in Rappoltenkirchen. Heller studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna , the Technical University of Braunschweig and in Rostock , where he received his doctorate in 1884 . He then went on two zoological study trips , which took him to southern Bulgaria in 1884 and to Syria in 1885 . In 1885 he was appointed as assistant, from 1890 as curator of the Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum to Dresden.

Karl Maria Heller died on December 26, 1945 at the age of 81 in Dresden.

Act

Karl Maria Heller, whose special interest was the exotic beetles, worked mainly on Indo-Australian weevils, so that the museum, since his successor also pursued the same research direction, became a center for curculionid research .

Works

• The original buffalo of Celébes: Anoa depressicornis (H. Smith). Attempt a monograph. Grünberg, Dresden 1889 (Rostock, dissertation, November 30, 1889).
• Over 240 magazine articles, mostly in: Treatises and reports of the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum in Dresden. ISSN  0233-125X .

literature

• From entomologists. In: Coleopterological review. Vol. 30, 1944, ISSN  0075-6547 , p. 14, digital version (PDF; 285 kB) .
• From entomologists. In: Coleopterological review. Vol. 31, 1947/1950, pp. 151–152, here p. 152, digitized version (PDF; 333 kB) .
• Hermann August Ludwig Degener: Who is it. Lexicon of contemporaries, containing biographies and bibliographies. Vol. 10, 1935, ZDB -ID 207268-3 .

Web links

• Heller Karl Maria. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 261.
• Literature by and about Karl Maria Heller in the catalog of the German National Library