Ulrike Aspöck

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Ulrike Aspöck (née Pirklbauer ; born July 12, 1941 in Linz ) is an Austrian entomologist .

Life

Ulrike Pirklbauer is the first of three children of the engineer Johann Pirklbauer (1915–2003) and his wife Rosa (* 1919) born Hofer. By participating in the communist strikes in 1950 , the father was dismissed without notice and also lost his official residence. In the following time the family often changed their place of residence, lived in St. Pölten , Obermühl , Windischgarsten , Leoben , Oberau and then finally stayed in Windischgarsten. Ulrike Pirklbauer passed her Matura in 1960 at the Bundesrealgymnasium Leoben. Since the winter semester 1960/61 she studied biology at the University of Innsbruck . Her academic teachers were the limnologist and phylogeneticist Otto Steinböck (1893–1969), the ecologist and entomologist Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997), the ecotoxicologist Hannes an der Lan (1909–1982), and the botanist Arthur Pisek (1893–1975) , Helmut Gams and Walter Larcher . Further study locations were Munich and Vienna.

Ulrike Pirklbauer married her fellow student Horst Aspöck on November 16, 1963 , who named an insect after her in 1964. Her only son Christoph (* 1965) is a medical doctor and heads the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the St. Pölten University Hospital .

1969 published her dissertation and 1975 Ulrike Aspöck was at the University of Vienna Dr. phil. PhD. In 1986 she succeeded Alfred Kaltenbach, the curator for the insect groups Orthoptera , Hemiptera and Neuropterida, at the Natural History Museum Vienna . In 1995 , Ulrike Aspöck completed her habilitation and was named tit in 2001 at the suggestion of Hannes F. Paulus . ao. University professor appointed. She retired in December 2006.

Ulrike Aspöck is known worldwide for her work on entomology, which she mainly publishes together with her husband Horst. This includes work on the taxonomy and biology of reticulated winged species (Neuropteroida), in particular camel neck flies (Raphidioptera) and large- winged flies (Megaloptera), as well as work on animal geography and the history of entomology. In 1995 Ulrike and Horst Aspöck received the Meigen Medal of the German Society for General and Applied Entomology for their entomological work .

Works (selection)

  • Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Aspöck, Herbert Hölzel: The Neuroptera of Europe: a comprehensive presentation of the systematics, ecology and chorology of the Neuropteroidea (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Planipennia) of Europe. Goecke and Evers, Krefeld 1980, ISBN 3-87263-028-8 .
  • Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Aspöck: Neuropterida (Neuropteroidea, Neuroptera sensu lato), orders 2830. In: Holger Heinrich Dathe (Ed.): 5th part: Insecta. In: Textbook of Special Zoology. (founded by Alfred Kaestner ). Second edition. Volume I: Invertebrates. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8274-0930-6 , pp. 540-884 and 887-892.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Horst Aspöck: Ulrike Aspöck for his 70th birthday: a bouquet of flowers from the history of science. In: Entomologica Austriaca. 19, 2012, pp. 101-260.
  2. ↑ Horst Aspöck: ' Raphidia ulrikae ' nov. spec., a new neuropteron from Central Europe. In: Entomological Reports, Amsterdam. 24, 1964, pp. 151-153.
  3. ↑ a b Korad Thaler : Univ.-Prof. Dr. Horst Aspöck - 65 years. In: Denisia. 13, 2004, pp. 15-21.
  4. ↑ Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology (accessed on January 20, 2018)
  5. ↑ Ulrike Aspöck: The Raphidioptera of the Nearctic (Insecta: Neuropteroidea). Dissertation. University of Vienna 1969.
  6. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Aspöck on the website of the Natural History Museum Vienna (accessed on January 20, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Aspöck, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz