Anton Handlirsch, exactly Anton Peter Josef Handlirsch (20 January 1865, Vienna

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 - 28 August 1935, Vienna) was an Austria

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n entomologist.

His father was Peter Handlirsch (1831 – 1873), mother was Rosina Handlirsch (born 1841). His father worked as a cook

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 of the Schwarzenberg

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 family. His surname

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 Handlirsch was came from "merchant

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Initially a pharmacist

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 , Handlirsch became an assistant to Friedrich Moritz Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer . An Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death...

 in the department of entomology of the Natural History Museum of Vienna

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 in 1892. He became the director of this department in 1922, a function which he held until his retirement. He specialised in the Hymenoptera

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 and the Hemiptera

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, his work concerning the evolution

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 of these and other insects. His principal work, which appeared between 1906 and 1908, was on insect fossils and he was the founder of insect palaentology. The University of Graz

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 gave him the title of Doctor of Science

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 honoris causa and he was made a member of the Academy of Science of Vienna

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. He is best known for Die Fossilen Insekten, (1906-1908) - 1,433 pages and 51 plates - and his contributions to the third volume of Christoph 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 in Greifswald

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Source

• Guido Nonveiller
  Guido Nonveiller
  Guido Nonveiller was a Croatian entomologist, FAO expert and professor at the University of Belgrade. He fought in the International Brigades and French Forces of the Interior during WW2. In 1989 he was inducted as a Commander of the l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques...
  
  (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.