Paul Kaehsbauer

Paul Kähsbauer (born March 9, 1912 in Vienna ; † 1988 ibid) was an Austrian zoologist and long-time employee at the Natural History Museum in Vienna . His specialty was ichthyology .

After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Vienna V, Paul Kähsbauer studied natural science and physics at the University of Vienna , where he was particularly influenced by the zoologist Jan Versluys . After graduating as Dr. phil. in November 1938, Kähsbauer worked as an assistant at the Natural History Museum Vienna. During the Second World War he was a soldier from 1939 to 1945. He then returned to the Natural History Museum, where he was appointed head of the fish collection on April 1, 1948. Later he was appointed councilor . He died at the age of 76 and was buried on April 7, 1988 in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Kähsbauer was concerned with the systematics of fish all his life . He published several articles in the annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna and other journals and edited a part of the Catalogus faunae Austriae , the complete catalog of all animal species in Austria. His scientific legacy is in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Fonts

• Morphological and statistical studies on bony fish labyrinths . Vienna 1938 (dissertation)
• Director Dr. Franz Steindachner, his life and work . Vienna 1959
• with Josef Eiselt and Hans Strouhal: Catalogus faunae Austriae. A systematic directory of all animal species identified in Austria in individual representations. Vertebrata: vertebrates. Part 21: Cyclostomata, Teleostomi (pisces) . Vienna 1961
• Umbra. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX A, 1, Stuttgart 1961, Col. 591 f.

literature

• Dr. Paul Kaehsbauer . In: Kosmos . Volume 62, Issue 9 (September 1966), p. 400.
• Gerhard Renner : The bequests in the libraries and museums of the Republic of Austria . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1993, p. 189.