Friedrich Georg Hendel was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n Hauptsschuldirektor (high school director) and entomologist mainly interested in Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

. He described very many new species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 and made important contributions to the higher taxonomy

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

 of the Diptera.

He was born in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 and died in Baden bei Wien

Baden bei Wien

-Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks...

. His collection is in the Vienna Natural History Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

The Naturhistorisches Museum Wien or NHMW is a large museum located in Vienna, Austria.The collections displayed cover , and the museum has a website providing an overview as a video virtual tour....

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Works

Selection 1908-1914

• 1908 Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.), d’après un plan tout nouveau

par J. G. Meigen, Paris, an VIII (1800 v.s.). Mit einem Kommentar. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges.
Wien 58: 43-69.

• 1910 Über die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratengattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der paläarktischen

Dipteren, Bd. 4. Wien. Ent. Ztg. 29: 307-313.

• 1914 Diptera. Fam. Muscaridae, Subfam. Platystominae. Genera Ins. 157, 179 pp., 15 pls.
• 1914 Die Arten der Platystominen. Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 8 (1): 1-409, 4 pls.
• 1914 Die Bohrfliegen Südamerikas. Abh. Ber. K. Zool. Anthrop.-Ethn. Mus. Dresden (1912) 14

(3): 1-84, 4 pls..

Other works see the reference section in Sabrosky's Family Group Names in Diptera