Franz Ocskay
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Franz Ocskay von Ocskö was a Hungarian
entomologist.
Freiherr
Franz L. B. Ocskay was the son of Major-General Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko
(1740- 1805). He lived in Ödenburg,today Sopron.
Franz Ocskay described several new species of grasshoppers
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Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
entomologist.
Freiherr
Freiherr
The German titles Freiherr and Freifrau and Freiin are titles of nobility, used preceding a person's given name or, after 1919, before the surname...
Franz L. B. Ocskay was the son of Major-General Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko
Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko
Joseph Ocskay von Ocskó joined the army of the Habsburg Empire and rose to the rank of general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars. He fought in numerous actions in the 1796-1797 Italian campaign against the French army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte...
(1740- 1805). He lived in Ödenburg,today Sopron.
Franz Ocskay described several new species of grasshoppers
Grasshopper
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...
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Works
- 1826 Gryllorum Hungariae indigenorum species aliquot. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 13(1): 407-410.
- 1832 OrthopteraOrthopteraOrthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...
nova. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 16(2): 959-962. - 1844 Über den Standort seltener Insecten. Amtl. Bericht Naturf. Ges. Gräz 4: 181.
- 1850 Toussaint von Charpentier's letzte Insektenabbildung. Acta Acad. Leopold. Carol. (Halle) 20(2): 6 Seiten. (with Johann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst , sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist and zoologist.- Life:...
and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von EsenbeckChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von EsenbeckChristian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...
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