Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky

Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky , also Peter, Pedro, (born October 5, 1916 in Bonn , † January 27, 1987 in Middletown , New York ) was a German entomologist .

Life

Wygodzinsky studied at the University of Basel , where he received his doctorate in 1939 under Eduard Handschin . In 1941 he left for Brazil in a transport organized by the evangelical refugee aid organization. From 1941 to 1947 he worked in Brazil as an entomologist for the national malaria service and in the Ministry of Agriculture and from 1948 in Argentina as a professor at the University of Tucuman (and taxonomist for black flies at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, from 1954 at the Miguel Lillo Institute in Tucuman as a taxonomist) , 1959 to 1962 professor of entomology at the University of Buenos Aires and was associate curator from 1962 and curator at the American Museum of Natural History from 1966 . He has published over 250 scientific papers.

He dealt specifically with predatory bugs , but also with other bedbugs, urine insects (Apterygota), two-winged bugs and beetles. His collection is at the American Museum of Natural History. In Latin America he also worked on botany and genetics.

He was a corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 1976 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of La Plata in 1977. In 1955 and 1960 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Berkeley, where he worked with his friend Robert L. Usinger .

Fonts

• Monograph of Emesinae, 1966
• with Hermann Lent: Revision of the Triatominae, 1979

literature

• Randall T. Schuh, Lee H. Herman: Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky (1916-1987), Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 96, 1988, pp. 227-244, full text

Web links

• Obituary in the New York Times, Jan. 30, 1987
• Entry in Entomologist Biographies, North Dakota State University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Archive Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 22634 ( [1] )