- Anton Handlirsch
Anton Handlirsch (20 January 1865 ,
Vienna -28 August 1935 Vienna) was anAustria nentomologist .Initially a pharmacist , Handlirsch became an assistant to
Friedrich Moritz Brauer in the department of entomology of the Natural History Museum of Vienna in 1892. He became the director of this department in 1922, a function which he held until his retirement. He specialised in theHymenoptera and theHemiptera , his work concerning theevolution of these and other insects. His principal work, which appeared between 1906 and 1908, was on insect fossils and he was the founder of insectpalaentology . TheUniversity of Graz gave him the title of Doctor of Sciencehonoris causa and he was made a member of the Academy of Science of Vienna. He is best known for "Die Fossilen Insekten", (1906-19080 - 1,433 pages and 51 plates and his contributions to the third volume ofChristoph Schröder 's "Handbuch der Entomologie" (1920-1925)_- 1,201 pages with 1,040 figures. Handlirsch's fossil collection is mostly in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Other parts are in the Ernst-Moritz-Universität inGreifswald .Source
Guido Nonveiller (2001). "Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia." Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.
References
*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 "Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930)" Leiden, Backhuys.
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