Viktor Apfelbeck
Viktor Apfelbeck (born April 18, 1859 in Eisenerz, Hzgt. Styria , † May 1, 1934 in Sarajevo ) was an Austro-Yugoslav entomologist and museum curator .
After working as a forester in Ludbreg (today Croatia ), he came to Sarajevo in 1887, where he also worked as a forester, then from 1890 until his retirement in 1925 as curator of the Bosnian-Hercegovinian State Museum . There he put on an extensive collection of insects native to Southeast Europe . He is the author of numerous insectology articles in specialist journals and discovered several new species, including several Southeastern European members of the Phyllobius weevil genus .
Works
- The beetle fauna of the Balkan Peninsula , Volume 1: Caraboidea family series , 1904 (no other volumes published)
literature
- Obituary (in: Koleopterologische Rundschau , Volume 21 (No. 1/2, April 1935), p. 55; PDF; 294 kB)
- Simo Mladenovski, Apfelbek, Viktor , in: Makedonska Enciklopedija, Volume 1, 2009 ( ISBN 978-608-203-023-4 ; PDF; 33.4 MB), p. 77
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| SURNAME | Apfelbeck, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Yugoslav entomologist and museum curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iron ore (Styria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1934 |
| Place of death | Sarajevo |