Sigmund Hein

Sigmund Hein (born February 6, 1868 in Freiwaldau , Austrian Silesia , † December 16, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lepidopterist .

Life

Sigmund Hein, born in Freiwaldau 1868, was after the cadet school in Liebenau had graduated, a career officer in the Kuk Army . In 1905 he was promoted to captain and retired as colonel after the First World War . He settled in Linz , where he was the chairman of the “entomological working group” .

Sigmund Hein died in Vienna in 1945 at the age of 77.

Act

Changing garrisons during his military career, such as those in Sandschak Novi Pazar , Graz , Marburg an der Drau , Görz , Imst , Jungbunzlau , Cavalese or Olmütz , made it possible for him to compile a rich collection of butterflies from various regions of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Hein also successfully raised butterflies. He was particularly interested in the geometrids and here the genus Eupithecia .

Works

• Article in: Annual report of the Vienna Entomological Association 22 , 1911;
• Articles in: Journal of the Austrian Entomological Association 5 , 1920, 11, 1926, 13, 1928, 14, 1929, 18, 1933, 20, 1935 and 21, 1936;

literature

• Journal of the Vienna Entomological Society 30, 1945, pp. 59–61, with catalog raisonné ;
• Emil Hoffmann: Johann Häuslmayr †. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 93, Linz 1948, pp. 104–105 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , with catalog of works).
• Hein Sigmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 246.