Ludwig Mitterpacher
Ludwig (Ljudevit) Mitterpacher von Pazin, Mitterburg in Hungarian as Mitterpacher Lajos, Latinized as Ludovicus Mitterpacher (25 August 1734, Bilje, Croatia, Bilje – 24 May 1814) was a Hungary, Hungarian agronomist, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Life and work Mitterpacher was born in a German family in Bilje. His brother József later became a professor and clergyman. He went to school in Pécs and joined the Jesuit Order in 1749 at Trencin. He taught Latin at Sopron in 1755 and went to study mathematics at the University of Vienna. From 1758 he taught in Győr and in 1759 he went to Vienna he received a doctorate in theology at the Pázmány Institute and was ordained priest in 1761. He lectured on agriculture at the Jesuit University, the Theresianum in Vienna from 1763 until the dissolution of the order in 1773. The moth ''Ancylis mitterbacheriana, Tortrix mitterbacheriana'' was named after him. From 1777 Mitterpacher was a professor of natural history in Budapest ...
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