Curt Eisner (April 28, 1890 in

Zabrze Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: , full form: , , ) is an industrial city put under direct government rule in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lies in the western part of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of around 2 m ...

– December 30, 1981 in

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) was a German

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

who specialised in snow

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

Parnassinae The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across ...

. His collections of Parnassinae are in

Naturalis Naturalis Biodiversity Center () 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. Although its current name and organization are relatively ...

, 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 () 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 museums in Germany alongside Naturm ...

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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 East ...

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* 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 (biology), family Nymphalidae. Most of the about 90–100 species (see also #Taxonomy and systematics, below) are dark brown or black in color, with reddish-brown to orang ...

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Zobodat Full bibliography in Nota Lepidopterologica

External links

Naturalis Repository
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Obituary
1890 births 1981 deaths German lepidopterists People from Zabrze 20th-century German zoologists {{entomologist-stub