Max Beier
Max Walter Peter Beier ( born April 6, 1903 in Spittal an der Drau, † July 4, 1979 in Vienna ) was an Austrian zoologist.
Life
Max Beier was the son of the railway engineer Julius Beier and his wife Marie, nee Mitis. From 1923 he studied zoology at the University of Vienna, including Franz Werner ( 1867-1939 ) and Berthold Hatchek. He earned his doctorate at July 12, 1927 at Karl Grobben with the thesis Comparative studies on the central nervous system of the Coleoptera Dr. phil .. On 1 November of the same year he started his scientific activity in the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he student Anton Handl Irschs was. He was Secretary-General in 1960 at the 11th International Congress of Entomology, Vienna. In 1961 he was appointed professor. From 1963, he led the Zoological department of the museum was until he retired in 1968. As the Austrian Entomological Society was founded on September 5, 1975 in Lunz am See, Beier was its first president. He remained scientifically active until his death in 1979.
Beier was married to Irmgard time home since 1931. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter were born.
Performance
Max Beier was a prolific scientist who wrote about 400 scientific publications, including nearly 250 on pseudoscorpions. He was considered an expert on mantis ( Mantodea ). It is due to that the Natural History Museum Vienna today has the world's largest Mantodea collection. He also dealt with Spring terror (Orthoptera ) and beetles, particularly their larvae. His work covers taxonomy, morphology, physiology and ecology. He also wrote significant contributions to zoological collection works such as Heinrich Georg Bronn's classes and orders of the animal kingdom, Willy chicks valley Handbook of Zoology and Animal Biology Paul Schulze of Germany. He was editor of Orthopterorum Catalogus.
Honors
Max Beier's work has been recognized through numerous awards and honorary memberships. He was a corresponding member of the Sociedad Entomologica Argentina and the Finnish Entomological Society and an honorary member of the Netherlands Entomological Society. The German Entomological Society awarded him in 1967 the Fabricius medal for best German -language entomological publication of the year 1966.
On June 4, 1970, the University of Innsbruck appointed him honorary doctorates. On September 20, 1977, he was honored at the VII International Symposium on Entomofaunistik the Medal of Honor for excellence in Entomofaunistik. Eduard Wagner has dedicated to him several new species, for example, mirids Dimorphocoris beieri Wagner in 1965 and Orthotylus beieri Wagner 1942 and Wagner Artheneis beieri 1963 from the family of Artheneidae.