Franz Xaver Fieber
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He was the son of Franz Anton Fieber and Maria Anna née Hantsehl. He studied economics
Economics
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, management science and modern languages at the Czech Technical University in Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague
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from 1824 to 1828. He began work in finance (civil service) before becoming a magistrate
Magistrate
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in Chrudim in Bohemia
Bohemia
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Fieber was a Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. He was the author of "Synopsis der europäischen Orthopteren" (1854) Die europäischen Hemiptera (1860) and numerous other publications on insects.He worked notably on insect wings As well as Hemiptera
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
, he studied Orthoptera
Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...
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