Ludwig Ganglbauer (1 October 1856, in
Vienna
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– 5 June 1912, in
Rekawinkel, near
Kaltenbach Lower Austria), was an
Austria
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n
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
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
(i.e. beetles).
Ganglbauer became interested in insects during early childhood. Educated at the
Schottengymnasium in Vienna, he later obtained a teaching certificate from the
University of Vienna
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, and then taught high school for a few years. He subsequently took a job at the Wiener Hofmuseum (now the
Vienna Museum of Natural History).
[Capinera, John. ]
Encyclopedia of Entomology
', p. 1586 (Springer, 2008).
In 1881, he co-founded the journal ''Wiener Entomologische Zeitung''.
He became director of the Department for Zoology at the
Vienna Natural History Museum in 1906. Ganglbauer wrote ''Die Käfer von Mitteleuropa'' (Beetles of Central Europe), 4 vols., 1892-1904 which was unfinished at his death, but is still widely read by entomologists.
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Austrian entomologists
Coleopterists
1856 births
1912 deaths
Scientists from Austria-Hungary
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