Ludwig Redtenbacher
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Ludwig Redtenbacher was an Austrian doctor and entomologist mainly interested in beetles
Redtenbacher was born 10 June 1814 in Kirchdorf an der Krems in Upper Austria and died in Vienna 8 February 1876
He was the first university professor in Prague , and from 1860 director of the Vienna Natural History Museum.
Although Redtenbacher worked mainly on the beetles of Austria his new approach to classification or, in German, analytischen was very widely adopted. He is also significant for his work n the beetles collected on the voyage of the Novara an Austrian frigate which went on a round-the-world scientific expedition between 1857 and 1859.
He also described many of the beetles collected by Ida Pfeiffer.
His most significant works were:
- Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858,1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Coleopteren. 249 pp., illus. (1868)
- Fauna Austriaca. Die Käfer, nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien : Karl Gerold 1st Edn xxvii 883 pp. (1849). Second expanded and revised edition 1858.
