Anton Ausserer

Anton Ausserer ( born July 5, 1843 in Bolzano, † July 20, 1889 in DC, Styria ) was an Austrian naturalist and Arachnologe.

Life and work

His life was short, labor- rich and full of hardships. Ausserer was one of five children of a gunsmith in Bolzano. His extraordinary talent fell to the teachers so that they caused his father to send him to high school. There he had Vincenz Maria Gredler, a pioneer of zoological research in the Tyrol, teacher. Even at this time showed Ausserer a great interest for science. At the age of 15, he was an orphan. He had to fight during high school and study time with bitter economic hardship and had to earn his living by tutoring. During this time he contracted a lung disease that he no longer has his life going on. He studied natural sciences ( teaching ) in Innsbruck from 1863 to 1867, where he was assisted by Camille Heller, Professor of "Zoology and Comparative Anatomy " at the University of Innsbruck. Heller also spurred him to explore spiders. In his second year of university in 1865 Ausserer received a written out of the University award and a scholarship which facilitated him to continue his studies. With his thesis in 1867 at Heller on the spider fauna of Tyrol he founded the Araneofaunistik in the northern Alps. He writes in the introduction:

From 1868, he worked as a school teacher in Feldkirch. In 1874 he was appointed professor ( in the title fell Austria also a job title for teachers in secondary schools ) on 1 state school in Graz. In 1869 he became secretary of the Zoological Section of the Natural Science Society Innsbruck. 1870/1871 he received a "holiday" for a sabbatical in Vienna. He studied with Professor Schmarada and conducted research at the k " k zoological Hofcabinete ", the forerunner of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. As a result Ausserer published his pioneering work on the systematics of orthognathic spiders ( the bird arachnids ) and a paper on " New Radspinnen " (1871 ). In 1872 he received his Ph.D. degree in Innsbruck. In 1875 he wrote a sequel to his work on the othognathen spiders. 1880-1881 took him a trip to Sicily, from 1886 to 1887 to Egypt. 1888 Ausserer married, but died a year later at the age of 46 years to his lung disease. He was buried in Trautmannsdorf ( Styria ).

Ausserers importance for the Arachnologie is adjacent to the early study of the spider fauna of the Northern Alps, especially in his contributions to the systematics of the bird arachnids. His work was of great importance for Simon and Pocock. Even today, its generic name Acanthoscurria, Chaetopelma, Cyclosternuam, Euathlus, Hapalopus, Homoeomma, Ischnocolus, Harpactira, Selenocosmia, Sericopelma and Tapinauchenius are valid. He described 38 new bird species of spiders. Schmidt calls him the first modern tarantulas - taxonomist.

Part of his collection preserved at the Tiroler Landesmuseum. Your post has confirmed the extraordinary power of Ausserer.

In honor of Ausserer following species of spiders have been named: Altella aussereri K. THALER, 1990 ( Dictynidae ) Nomisia aussereri L. KOCH, 1872 ( Gnaphosidae ), Singa aussereri Thorell, 1873 ( Araneidae ).

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