Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl

Karl Friedrich Brunner von Wattenwyl ( born June 13, 1823 in Bern, Switzerland, † August 24 1914 in Kirchdorf- Neukematen, Austria - Hungary) was a famous Swiss naturalist, physicist, geologist, director of the telegraph office in Vienna and entomologist. Throughout his life he occupied himself mainly with Spring horror and ghost insects.

After finishing elementary school, he began a study of the natural sciences, in which he mainly devoted physical phenomena: he studied physics and geology at the universities of Geneva, Bern and Berlin. In 1846 he received his doctorate of philosophy. In the years 1850-1855 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Bern. 1851 he began to introduce the telegraph in Switzerland.

During a stay abroad in Greece and Turkey, he gained new Spring Fright types and describing new species and subspecies of these orders.

His insect collection is housed in the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

Brunner was in 1850 married to Emilie Elisa von Wattenwyl ( 1831-1895 ). In 1880, he was raised in Austria to knighthood.

The fabricated by the painter Hans Temple, monumental portrait Brunner is in the collection of the Jegenstorf Castle Foundation.

Writings

• Prodromus of the European Orthoptera. Leipzig 1882. ( Xxxii 466 pp. 11 pls. 4 map. )
• Brunner von Wattenwyl, K. (1907 ): The insect family of phasmids. Vol 2 Phasmidae Anareolatae ( Clitumnini, Lonchodini, Bacunculini ). pp. 181-340, pls. 7-15. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. online ( PDF, 41.9 MB)