Karl Wilhelm of Dalla Torre

Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (born July 14, 1850 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol , † April 6, 1928 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian biologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Dalla Torre ".

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Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck . In 1874 he received his doctorate and in 1881 his habilitation in entomology at the University of Innsbruck. From 1890 he was associate professor for zoology and from 1921 honorary member of the University of Innsbruck.

Fonts

• Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus . Vol. 1-10. Leipzig 1894
• Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre & Anton Hartinger [Ill.]: Atlas of the Alpine flora . Vienna: Verl. D. German u. Austrian Alpine Club, 1882–1884
• The alpine plants in the knowledge of the German alpine inhabitants (1905)
• Flora of the princes of Tyrol, the state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein , together with Ludwig von Sarnthein (1900–1913)
• Heinrich von Ficker & Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre: Climatography of Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Vienna: Gerold, 1909.

literature

• Otto Huber, Bruno Wallnöfer, Thomas Wilhalm: Botany in South Tyrol and adjacent areas in the 20th century: A bibliographical review . Edition Raetia, Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-88-7283-428-2 , p. 15
• Dalla Torre Karl Wilhelm of. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 167.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in the catalog of the Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio)
• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre at the IPNI
• Entry on Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )