Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (December 17, 1814 – 1897) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 entomologist who worked on Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

 and Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

, mainly the Ichneumonidae

Ichneumonidae

Ichneumonidae is a family within the insect order Hymenoptera. Insects in this family are commonly called ichneumon wasps. Less exact terms are ichneumon flies , or scorpion wasps due to the extreme lengthening and curving of the abdomen...

 and Braconidae

Braconidae

Braconidae is a family of parasitoid wasps and one of the richest families of insects. Between 50,000 and 150,000 species exist worldwide. The species are grouped into about 45 subfamilies and 1,000 genera, some important ones being: Ademon, Aphanta, Asobara, Bracon hebetor, Cenocoelius, Chaenusa,...

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Briscke was from Danzig, West Prussia

West Prussia

West Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773–1824 and 1878–1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia...

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He was the author of Die Hymenopteren des Bernsteins.Schriften der Naturforschenden Geselschaft in Danzig, (N.F.), 6(3), 278-279 ( 1886) and (with Hermann Reinhard

Hermann Reinhard

Hermann Reinhard was a German physician and entomologist. He specialised in Hymenoptera ....

  Die Ichneumoniden der Provinzen West und Ostpreußens. Sehr.naturf.Ges.Danzig, (N.F.), 5(3):121-183 (1882)
His collections of Hymenoptera are in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Danzig ,Poland; Zoologisches Museum Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

, Germany and in the Zoological museum in the State University of Kharkov, Ukraine.