Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke

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Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (December 17, 1814 – 1897 ) was a German entomologist who worked on Diptera and Hymenoptera, mainly the Ichneumonidae and Braconidae.

Briscke was from Danzig, West Prussia.

He was the author of Die Hymenopteren des Bernsteins.Schriften der Naturforschenden Geselschaft in Danzig, (N.F.), 6(3), 278-279 ( 1886) and (with Hermann Reinhard Die Ichneumoniden der Provinzen West und Ostpreußens. Sehr.naturf.Ges.Danzig, (N.F.), 5(3):121-183 (1882) His collections of Hymenoptera are in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Danzig ,Poland; Zoologisches Museum Königsberg, Germany and in the Zoological museum in the State University of Kharkov, Ukraine.