Anton AussererW
Anton Ausserer

Anton Ausserer was an Austrian naturalist specialising in spiders. His father died when he was a youth, and he and his family suffered much economic hardship, but he was supported and encouraged by Camill Heller, professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Innsbruck.

Julius von BergenstammW
Julius von Bergenstamm

Julius Edler von Bergenstamm was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He worked alongside Friedrich Moritz Brauer the Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna.

Friedrich Moritz BrauerW
Friedrich Moritz Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer was an Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death. He wrote many papers on Diptera and Neuroptera.

Stephan von Breuning (entomologist)W
Stephan von Breuning (entomologist)

Stephan von Breuning was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in the study of beetles (Coleopterology), particularly within the longhorn family (Cerambycidae).

Leander CzernyW
Leander Czerny

Leander (Franz) Czerny was an Austrian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Michael DenisW
Michael Denis

Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.

Caspar Erasmus DuftschmidW
Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid

Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid properly Kaspar was an Austrian naturalist and physician who made significant contributions to entomology, especially Coleoptera.

Johann EggerW
Johann Egger

Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger, was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Josef Erber (naturalist)W
Josef Erber (naturalist)

Josef Erber was a natural history dealer in Vienna. He made expeditions to the Greek Islands.

Cajetan von FelderW
Cajetan von Felder

Baron Cajetan von Felder was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878.

Rudolf FelderW
Rudolf Felder

Rudolf Felder was an Austrian jurist and entomologist. He was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, amassing, with his father, Cajetan Felder, a huge collection.

Georg Ritter von FrauenfeldW
Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld

Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld was an Austrian naturalist and one of the leading scientists on board the Austrian frigate Novara during its round-the-world voyage. He was heavily involved in the development of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was a curator.

Carl Eduard HammerschmidtW
Carl Eduard Hammerschmidt

Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt, also known as Abdullah Bey, was an Austrian mineralogist, entomologist, and physician.

Ernst HeegerW
Ernst Heeger

Ernst Heeger, was an Austrian amateur entomologist. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, a "Privatcadet" in the Napoleonic Wars, and from 1816 an employee of the Magistrat of Vienna Later he founded a school of languages and drawing in Modling. As an entomologist, he was particularly interested in the biology of insects and in the benefits and damage caused by insects. He collaborated with Vincenz Kollar.He published a series of entomology works entitled Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Insecten and he was a pioneer of micrography publishing Album microscopisch-photographischer Darstellungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie between 1861 and 1863.

Hans HirschkeW
Hans Hirschke

Hans Hirschke, sometimes Hanns, was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was first a linen weaver in Brno, then a gardener's apprentice. In 1899, he was Head of the Exchange Office Vienna and a Member of the Entomological Association of Vienna. Hans Hirschke described Alcis bastelbergeri and Phengaris rebeli in Jber. Wien. ent. Ver.

Gabriel HöfnerW
Gabriel Höfner

Gabriel Höfner was an Austrian entomologist, musician and composer.

Robert LatzelW
Robert Latzel

Robert Latzel was an Austrian myriapodologist and entomologist who published a series of pioneering works on millipedes, centipedes, and allies. His collection of myriapod specimens, today housed in the Natural History Museum of Vienna, includes many type specimens. His monographs on the myriapods of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the first comprehensive treatments of the large region's centipede and millipede faunas. He named nearly 130 taxa of millipedes and over 40 centipede groups, as well as four taxa each of pauropods and symphylans. His work on millipedes pioneered the use of gonopods in millipede classification and species recognition. At least three authors have honored Latzel by naming a genus Latzelia.

Julius Lederer (entomologist)W
Julius Lederer (entomologist)

Julius Lederer was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He travelled widely: to Andalusia in 1849 Carinthia with Johann von Hornig (1819–1886) in 1853, İzmir in 1864, Magnesia in 1865, Amasya and Turkey in 1866, Mersin and the Taurus Mountains in 1867, Lebanon in 1868 and the Balkans in 1870).

Gustav MayrW
Gustav Mayr

Gustav L. Mayr was an Austrian entomologist and professor in Budapest and Vienna. He specialised in Hymenoptera, being particularly known for his studies of ants.

Johann Christian MikanW
Johann Christian Mikan

Johann Christian Mikan was an Austrian-Czech botanist, zoologist and entomologist. He was the son of Joseph Gottfried Mikan.

Karl von MollW
Karl von Moll

Karl Maria E(h)renbert Freiherr von Moll was an Austrian naturalist and statesman.

Ida Laura PfeifferW
Ida Laura Pfeiffer

Ida Laura Pfeiffer, née Reyer, was an Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers, whose bestselling journals were translated into seven languages. She journeyed an estimated 32,000 kilometers by land and 240,000 kilometers by sea through Southeast Asia, the Americas, Middle East, and Africa, including two trips around the world from 1846 to 1855. She was a member of geographical societies of both Berlin and Paris, but was denied membership by the Royal Geographical Society in London as it forbade the election of women before 1913.

Johann Baptist Emanuel PohlW
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, mineralogist, and physician.

Hans RebelW
Hans Rebel

Hans Rebel was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Edmund ReitterW
Edmund Reitter

Edmund Reitter was an Austrian entomologist, writer and a collector.

Alois Friedrich RogenhoferW
Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.

Ignaz SchiffermüllerW
Ignaz Schiffermüller

Ignaz Schiffermüller was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.

Ignaz Rudolph SchinerW
Ignaz Rudolph Schiner

Ignaz Rudolf Schiner was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Ferdinand Joseph SchmidtW
Ferdinand Joseph Schmidt

Ferdinand Joseph Schmidt was an Austro-Hungarian businessman, naturalist and explorer who was among the pioneers of biospeleology, the study of cave fauna.

Gabriel StroblW
Gabriel Strobl

Gabriel Strobl was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Vitus GraberW
Vitus Graber

Veit Graber latinized as Vitus Graber was an Austrian pioneer of insect physiology, embryology, anatomy, and behaviour. He conducted experiments to demonstrate insect senses and perception while also looking at the structures responsible for them. He was the first to identify what he termed as chordotonal organs. A muscular and pear-shaped structure of unknown function found in the larvae of horseflies described by him is now known as Graber's organ. He was the author of several major books on insects including Die Insekten (1877–78).

Friedrich August von GeblerW
Friedrich August von Gebler

Friedrich August von Gebler or Fedor Vasilievich Gebler was a Prussian physician, explorer, and naturalist who worked in the Russian Empire and was a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Russia. He described several species of beetle and the Altai snowcock.

Erich WasmannW
Erich Wasmann

Erich Wasmann was an Austrian entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry. Wasmann was a supporter of evolution, although he did not accept the productivity of natural selection, the evolution of humans from other animals, or universal common descent of all life. Rather, he believed that common ancestry was restricted to what he called "natural species" which were generally larger groups than species, genera, or even families. His natural species he identified with the "paleontological species" of Melchior Neumayr. Wasmann also was involved in a long-running dispute with Ernst Haeckel over Monism. His father was the painter Friedrich Wasmann.

Franz WernerW
Franz Werner

Franz Josef Maria Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms.