Tobias Koy

Tobias Koy (* 1757 in Vienna (Bécs); † July 3, 1809 in Buda ) was a Hungarian court official in Buda and an entomologist of Austrian descent.

life and work

Koy grew up in Vienna. In 1787 he came to Buda as a Hungarian treasurer . In his spare time he collected insects in the Budapest area and reported on his collections in two articles. Koy's butterfly collection is of historical importance and is kept in the Hungarian Museum of Natural History.

On March 1, 1798, for more “formal” reasons (probably to promote scientific contacts), Koy was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina together with the court official Mauritius Johann Böhm with matriculation number 1005 and the academic nickname “Aelianus IV.” .

Literature by Tobias Koy

Alphabetical index of my insect collection (Buda, 1800)
Description of a new tool for catching insects (Braunschweig, 1801)

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Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker: On the membership of Hungarian scientists in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (pdf). Comm. Hist. Artis Med., 1981, accessed June 23, 2019 .
Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon: Tóbiás Koy. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Hungarian).
kislexikon: Koy, Tóbiás. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Hungarian).
Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 241 ( archive.org )

Web links

Member entry of Tobias Koy at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina

Literature by and about Tobias Koy in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker. 1981.
↑ ^a ^b Magyar Életrajzi lexicon. Tobias Koy.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d kislexikon. Tobias Koy.
^ Zsolt Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum): Lepidoptera collections of historical importance in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. January 2008, accessed June 23, 2019 .
↑ Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker. On the membership of Hungarian scientists in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, page 102: On the vocation of Mauritius Johann Böhm and Tobias Koy it says here: “Even if the latter two vocations were more formal in nature: they expired under the usual modalities and ended with the Award of Cognomina; they must also be taken into account in this list. "

personal data
SURNAME	Koy, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Court official in Buda
DATE OF BIRTH	1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna (Bécs)
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1809
Place of death	Buda

[:0-1] Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker. 1981.

[:1-2] Magyar Életrajzi lexicon. Tobias Koy.

[:2-3] slexikon. Tobias Koy.

[4] Zsolt Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum): Lepidoptera collections of historical importance in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. January 2008, accessed June 23, 2019 .

[5] Wolfram Kaiser, Arina Völker. On the membership of Hungarian scientists in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, page 102: On the vocation of Mauritius Johann Böhm and Tobias Koy it says here: “Even if the latter two vocations were more formal in nature: they expired under the usual modalities and ended with the Award of Cognomina; they must also be taken into account in this list. "