Joseph Kriechbaumer

Joseph Kriechbaumer ( born March 13, 1819 in Tegernsee, † May 2, 1902 in Munich) was a German entomologist.

Life

Joseph Kriechbaumer first attended elementary school in his birthplace, then a high school in Munich. He studied philosophy in Munich first, then medicine and natural history. He received his doctorate in medicine with an entomological thesis. However, he did not practice as a doctor. 1844 to 1853 he worked in the Catholic district school in Chur as a teacher of natural history. In 1847 he married, his wife passed away but already in 1849. From 1853 he taught in various schools in Munich. In 1858 he was appointed head of the newly established trade school in Ingolstadt. He has published several entomological work. From January 1859, he served as curator of the zoological collections zootomischen ( the present Zoological State Collection Munich). At first he was also responsible for molluscs in addition to insects. But he soon became a well-known specialist in Hymenoptera ( Hymenoptera). 1898 Kriechbaumer was appointed conservator of the ZSM II, which corresponds to a second director today. From the autumn of 1901, he could no longer work due to illness and died on 2 May 1902 in Munich. He was buried in his native town.

Scientific Importance

Joseph Kriechbaumer was mainly a well-known specialist in Hymenoptera, he has nearly 300 individual scientific articles, primarily on parasitic wasps ( Ichneumonidae ), published bees ( Apiformes ) and sawflies ( Symphyta ). He has described a number of new species.

Kriechbaumer has many insects sorted in the entomological collection of today's Zoological State Collection Munich, determined and cataloged.