Ludwig Ganglbauer
Ludwig Ganglbauer ( born October 1, 1856 in Vienna, † June 5, 1912 in Rekawinkel ) was an Austrian Koleopterologe.
Life
Ludwig Gangl builder father (Franz, 1823-1874 ) was higher financial officer ( peasant descent from the Upper Austrian Schiedlberg, his uncle Celestine Joseph Ganglbauer was abbot in the near Krems Cathedral and Cardinal from 1881 in Vienna). Ludwig was his early awakened biological interests in the study ( 1874-80 Vienna Univ., Without doctorate) meet. He put 1878, the Magisterium exam and began as a teacher at the Academic Gymnasium, which he had visited before. Two years later he joined as an assistant at k.k. Court Naturalienkabinett the successor custodian Friedrich Moritz Brauer at Ludwig Redtenbacher († 1876). In 1883 he married Eugenie Strong, from the marriage went a son. In 1893 he was curator of the zoological collection of the now (1889 ) completed the Natural History kk Hof Museum, whose collection of beetles he among others by collecting trips (especially for the Palaearctic ) brought to world renown.
In 1906, he was eventually head of the zoological collection - a position that fateful impacted as in so many similar cases, A devoted naturalist is crushed by official position and administrative obligations. In Ganglbauer appeared as a result of permanent overload abnormal thinking and memory lapses. In 1910 he became ill with cancer and died at 55 years in Rekawinkel, where he used repeatedly now " flee " from the museum to the peace here, possibly as a pensioner, his life's work, the " beetle of Central Europe " to complete. He is buried in Dürrwien. In 1908 he was the Executive Council and a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences elected in Vienna. Successor as head of the beetle collection in the museum was his colleague Karl Holdhaus ( 1883-1975 ).
Performance
Edmund Reitter has the superior skills Gangl manufacturer in the field of Coleopterologie ( coleopterology ) early on, and won him a friend for life. Ganglbauer initially envisioned a beetle fauna of Austria before (following L. Redtenbacher " Coleoptera austriaca " tapes ), but soon he realized that such a by Reitter's determination tables ( which finally in his " Fauna germanica: Coleoptera " culminated ) on an annual was also unnecessary. So the plan of the work " The beetles of Central Europe ", which is also less concerned Style systematics rather than higher taxa and their natural relationship, as they resulted from a demanded by Darwin and Haeckel especially real " family tree " was born. In this field of phylogenetics Ganglbauer excelled - only sometimes was found later that he had overrated the importance of a complex trait such as the Flügelgeäders. For example, he made the fundamental distinction of the beetles in Ade and Polyphaga (1903 ). Always interested in the bionomics (ecology ) his Beetle he regretted it many times, not being able to deal with much more detail in their expressions of life and conditions.
Characteristic of Ganglbauer was its rapid self- incorporation into the taxonomy of the respectively treated group so that he - as a " by-products " of his research - published nearly two hundred individual works, and indeed to a large extent in the founded with companions in 1881 by him " Viennese Entomological newspaper ". But when he had to realize that he would not be the target set as a result of material wealth ( living in Central Europe about 8000 species) can reach, he was like the editing of individual taxa to trusted colleagues. However, he suffered from having to leave his " beetles of Central Europe " by far the unfinished out of hand.
Main work
The beetles of Central Europe. - The beetles of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, Germany, Switzerland, and the French and Italian Alps area. From 1892 to 1904. Vienna (published by Carl Gerold's Sohn) -. The work was created on 6 or 7 volumes. The World War II made the continuation impossible.
- I. tape. Family set Caraboidea, 557 pages, 55 text figures. In 1892.
- Volume II. Family set Staphylinoiäea, Part 1, 880 pages, 38 text figures. 1895 -. The Staphylinoiden were in addition to the Cerambycidae Gangl Bauer's " favorite" objects of study.
- III. Band. Family set Staphylinoidea, Part 2, and family series Clavicornia. 1046 pages, 46 text figures., 1899.
- Volume IV, first half. Dermestidae, Byrrhidae, Nosodendridae, Georyssidae, Dryopidae, Heteroceridae, Hydrophilidae. 286 pages, 12 text figures. In 1904.