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Oct 01, 1856 Vienna, Austria Died on 05 Jun 1912 (aged 55)
Austrian entomologist
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About Ludwig Ganglbauer
- Ludwig Ganglbauer (1 October 1856, Vienna- 5 June 1912, Rekawinkel, near Kaltenbach Lower Austria), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera (i.e.
- beetles).
- Ganglbauer became interested in insects during early childhood.
- Educated at the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, he later obtained a teaching certificate from the University of Vienna, and then taught high school for a few years.
- He subsequently took a job at the Wiener Hofmuseum (now the Vienna Museum of Natural History).In 1881, he co-founded the journal Wiener Entomologische Zeitung.
- He became director of the Department for Zoology at the Vienna Natural History Museum in 1906.
- Ganglbauer wrote Die Käfer von Mitteleuropa (Beetles of Central Europe), 4 vols., 1892-1904 which was unfinished at his death, but is still widely read by entomologists.
