Gustav Mayr

Gustav L. Mayr ( born October 12, 1830 in Vienna, † July 14, 1908 ) was an Austrian entomologist.

Life

After the high school and the Faculty of Philosophy finish Mayr studied medicine and entered as a student in 1851 as a founding Mitglieg the Zoological and Botanical Society in Vienna with. In 1856 he became a Doctor of Medicine and passed the teaching examination for natural history and chemistry for the middle school. In the same year Mayr became the teacher of natural history at the secondary school to plague. In 1861 he lost due to the Magyarization the German middle schools in Hungary his position, moved to Vienna in 1863 and got a job there as a professor of natural history at a secondary school, a position he held until his retirement in 1892. For retirement Mayr received the title of imperial councilor after 1876 the gold medal of honor was awarded with crown him.

Mayr was addressed to his periods of study with entomology, his special field was the order of the Hymenoptera ( Hymenoptera ) and his special interest was the myrmekologischen systematics. His Hemipterensammlung of 1350 species, a total of 5500 pieces, he gave in 1896 to the Imperial Court Museum of Natural History in Vienna. The 2180 species of ants comprehensive collection and other collections he decreed in his will to the Imperial Zoological- Botanical Society in Vienna, which she, as she herself does not apply a scientific zoological collections, sold to the natural history farm museum. For the exhibition of its collections for the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 Mayr received the Medal of Merit by the international jury.

With Mayria Forel ( 1879), Eumayria Ashmead (1887 ) and Mayriella Forel ( 1902) carry three generic name of Hymenoptera his name. About 50 species in the most diverse groups of insects carry the epithet Mayri.

Works (selection)

  • The European Formicidae: with a lithographic plate., 1861.
  • Formicidae [ the Novara expedition ]. Vienna 1865.
  • The ants of the Baltic amber. Konigsberg: Koch, 1868.
  • Feigeninsecten. Vienna: Hölder, 1885.
  • Hymenopterologische Miscellen. Vienna: Hölder, 1902.
  • Formicidae from Egypt and Sudan. In 1903.
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