Carl Attems

Carl August Graf von Attems - Petzenstein ( born October 13, 1868 in Graz, † April 19, 1952 in Vienna ) was an Austrian zoologist. He has published numerous scientific papers, mostly to his specialty, the centipedes.

Life

Carl August Graf von Attems - Petzenstein in 1868, the son of Major and pomologists Heinrich Graf von Attems - Petzenstein ( 1834-1909 ) and Thekla von Schmidt -Pauli ( 1848-1927 ) was born. He received his doctorate in law at the University of Graz and studied zoology at Bonn and Vienna. His dissertation at the University of Vienna treated " The Copulationsfüße the Polydesmiden ". From then on, he became the foremost expert on myriapods and devoted himself to this almost exclusively. He described about 1800 new species and subspecies from around the world and published 138 works. The zoologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (1867-1945), working in the same area, has dedicated his new species. Thus, new genera ( Attemsia Ratio, Ratio Attemsocyphus, Attemsodesmus RF Lawrence) were named after him; the diplopods family Attemsiidae leads her name after him.

In 1905 he became a research assistant at the Vienna Court Museum, now the Natural History Museum Vienna. In 1911 he married the painter Emma Mont Bach ( 1874-1959 ). In 1919 he was appointed curator of the I class II class Curator, 1921. He then led the Zoological Department of the invertebrates in the museum. In recognition of his scientific work, he was awarded on 20 September 1946 the title of Privy Councillor.