Volker Mahnert

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Volker Mahnert

Volker Mahnert (born December 3, 1943 in Innsbruck ; † November 23, 2018 in Geneva ) was an Austrian entomologist , arachnologist , ichthyologist and parasitologist . His research focus was the pseudoscorpions .

Life

Volker Mahnert was one of three sons of Klaus Mahnert and Hanna Mahnert, née Kindl. In 1971 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Innsbruck under the direction of Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997) with his dissertation on ento- and ectoparasites of small mammals in the central eastern Alps (North Tyrol) .

In the same year he moved to Switzerland and became a curator at the Herpetology and Ichthyology Department at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève . From 1989 to 2005 he was director of the museum. In 1991 he became an associate professor at the University of Geneva .

Volker Mahnert was author or co-author of over 170 scientific articles. Most of them deal with the systematics and ecology of the pseudoscorpions. He also dealt with the taxonomy of fleas and with African and South American tetras (Alestidae and Characidae).

Mahnert was a member of the American Society of Arachnology, the British Society of Arachnology, the Society Suisse de Zoologie, the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG), the Société zoologique de France, the European Association of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (since 1991), the Biological Society of Washington , the Société Europénne d'Arachnologie, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Société internationale de biospéologie.

Dedication names

The brook loach species Schistura mahnerti was named in 1990 by Maurice Kottelat in honor of Volker Mahnert
Mahnertite is a rare mineral from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in France

The following species are named after Volker Mahnert:

In 1995, Halil Sarp named the mineral Mahnertite in his honor.

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1 , p. 133

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , accessed on November 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Philippe Roth Minerals first discovered in Switzerland: and minerals named after Swiss individuals Lindau 2007, p. 188
personal data
SURNAME Mahnert, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2018
Place of death Geneva