Curt Eisner (April 28, 1890 in
Zabrze
Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: ''Hindenburg O.S.'', full form: ''Hindenburg in Oberschlesien'', Silesian: ''Zŏbrze'', yi, זאַבזשע, Zabzhe) is an industrial city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Sil ...
– December 30, 1981 in
The Hague
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) was a German
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
who specialised in snow
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
or
Parnassinae. His collections of Parnassinae are in
Naturalis
Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( nl, Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.
Alt ...
, in Leiden, and his
Ornithoptera
''Ornithoptera'' is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia. Except for '' Ornithoptera richmondia'' ...
and
Morphidae are in the
Museum für Naturkunde
The Natural History Museum (german: Museum für Naturkunde) is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany. It exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history and in such domain it is one of three major muse ...
in
Berlin
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.In the 1930s he lived in
Berlin Dahlem.
Selected works
*Parnassiana nova, XII. Kritische Revision der Gattung Parnassius. (Fortsetzung 8). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 35 (4): 33—49.(1957)
*Parnassiana nova, XV. Kritische Revision der Gattung Parnassius. (Fortsetzung 10). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 35: 177—203.(1957)
* Parnassiana nova, XXXIII. Nachträgliche Betrachtungen zu der Revision der Subfamilia Parnassiinae. (Fortsetzung 6). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 38 (17): 281—294, Taf. XXI—XXII.(1963)
*Parnassiana nova XLIX. Die Arten und Unterarten der Baroniidae, Teinopalpidae und Parnassiidae (Lepidoptera). ''Zool. Verhand. Leiden'' 135: 1—96.(1974)
*Parnassiidae-Typen in der Sammlung J. C. Eisner ''Zool.Verh.'', n° 81, 1966. frontispice couleur, 190 pp., 84 planches N&B hors-texte.
*Obituary of
Felix Bryk
Felix Bryk (21 January 1882, in Vienna – 13 January 1957, in Stockholm) was a Swedish anthropologist, entomologist and writer.
In entomological circles, Bryk is best known as a lepidopterist; in anthropological history, for his studies in Eas ...
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pdf* Selected articles by Eisner for the
Leiden Museum including the series on Parnassiana nova and ''
Erebia
''Erebia'' is a Holarctic genus of brush-footed butterflies, family Nymphalidae. Most of the about 90–100 species (see also below) are dark brown or black in color, with reddish-brown to orange or more rarely yellowish wing blotches or ban ...
'
Zobodat Full bibliography in Nota Lepidopterologica
External links
Naturalis Repository
free downloads of some Eisner papers (via search box)
1890 births
1981 deaths
German lepidopterists
People from Zabrze
20th-century German zoologists
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