Gabriel Strobl

Gabriel Strobl ( born November 3, 1846 in Unzmarkt, Styria, † March 15, 1925 at pin Admont ) was a priest and entomologist.

Gabriel Strobl grew after the death of his mother with his aunt in rotting man. 1866, at the age of 20, he was Father 's Benedictine Abbey of Admont. A devastating fire in 1865 was the natural history collection of the monastery to the victim, had to its contents Joseph Stammel universe belongs. The Abbot Karl Mann Hieber ( term 1861-1868 ) entrusted him with the reconstruction of the natural history museum. In 44 years of work - up to a stroke in 1910 - Gabriel Strobl put on a new collection. The first 12 years of his work he devoted mainly to botany before he for 32 years completely devoted to entomology. Although his published works are mainly dealing Fly ( Diptera, so flies and mosquitoes ), but he also worked on the Hymenoptera and beetles ( until 1918 part of Austria - Hungary belonging ) Balkan Peninsula.

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The data collected by Strobl Fly and Beetle (except exotic, ie non-European) are located at the Natural History Museum of the pin Admont like all butterflies. The exotic beetles and cicadas and all Hymenoptera are the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz. The hoverflies (via HR Meyer) are located in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt.