Eduard Knirsch

Eduard Knirsch (* 1868 or 1869; † September 23, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian dentist and entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera (beetles ). His particular interest was the blind beetles, to which he has published numerous new taxa.

His collection is the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, 1955 to be found in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and Palearctic Cetoniidae, Lucanidae and Cave Silphidae collection with K. Brancsik in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He has published essays, for example, contributions to the knowledge of the insect fauna of German East Africa, in particular the Matengo highlands. , Based on the collections of Hans Zerny.