Max Bernhauer

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Maximilian Bernhauer (born September 24, 1866 in Müglitz , Moravia , † March 13, 1946 in Horn ) was an Austrian entomologist ( coleopterologist ).

Life

Bernhauer went to school in Olomouc and studied at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in law in 1889. After that he was a notary. He was in Vienna until 1891, then in Stockerau and in 1906 he became a kk notary in Grünburg in Upper Austria. From 1912 he was in Horn.

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By Ludwig Ganglbauer he came to the study of beetles and his first two works were published in 1898. He specialized as Ganglbauer to the study of rove beetles (Staphylinidae). At first he worked on species of the Palearctic , later mainly the tropics (especially South America, Africa). He had extensive, worldwide contacts with collectors and dealers who sent him specimens for identification and first described 5251 species and 342 genera. Most of them are still valid, although he rarely cited pictures in the descriptions and the details left a lot to be desired, so that verification is sometimes difficult. He wrote 285 scientific publications.

He also dealt with small butterflies. He and his friends, entomologists Ganglbauer and Franz Spaeth, collected especially on Lake Neusiedl . He traveled to Carinthia , the Carniolan Alps and the Jeseníky Mountains to collect with his friend Gottfried Luze . He also traveled to Tarvisio , Grado , the Horn, Helgoland and Sylt area . He was also friends with the gardener, Sparkasse employee (in Steyr ) Josef Petz (1866–1926), an important beetle collector with whom he occasionally (when Bernhauer was still living in Grünburg) collected almost every weekend on the banks of the Steyr or the surrounding mountains.

With Otto Scheerpeltz he created a catalog of the Staphylinidae (as part of Wilhelm Junk and Sigmund Schenkling, Coleopterorum Catalogus), which appeared in 1926 and comprised 12,740 species (expanded to 19,900 species by Scheerpeltz in 1932). About 45,000 species were known in 2000.

His collection, at that time one of the most important Stapyliniden collections in the world, is in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where it came shortly after the death of Bernhauer through the mediation of Rupert Wenzel.

literature

  • LH Herman: Bernhauer, Max, Bulletin American Museum Natural History, Volume 265, 2001, pp. 43-44.
  • V. Puthz: ​​Bibliography of publications by Max Bernhauer (1866-1946), Philippia, Volume 4, 1980, pp. 248-261.
  • Entry in: John L. Capinera (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer 2008, p. 471.
  • G. Rambousek: A life picture of Dr. Max Bernhauer's, Coleopterologische Rundschau, Volume 5, 1916, pp. 73-83 (108 publications until 1916).
  • F. Heikertinger: Dr. Max Bernhauer 70 years. In: Koleopt. Rundschau. 1936, p. 187 (with photo), PDF on ZOBODAT

Web links

 Wikispecies: Max Bernhauer  - Species Directory

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Encyclopedia of Entomology
  2. ↑ According to Encyclopedia of Entomology, see web links
  3. ↑ Its collection of 100,000 copies is an essential part of the Beetle collection of the Upper Austrian State Museum
  4. ↑ Heinz Mitter, On the history of Käferkunde in Upper Austria, Denisia, Volume 8, 2003, pp. 131-137, PDF on ZOBODAT
  5. ^ Field Museum, Coleoptera Collection . Through this collection (and a number of other special collections), among other things, the Field Museum has specimens of 35% of the 43,287 known valid Staphylinidae species.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhauer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhauer, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entomologist (coleopterologist)
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Müglitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1946
Place of death horn