Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre
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Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (14 July 1850, Kitzbühel
, Tyrol - 6 April 1928, Innsbruck
) was an Austria
n taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.
Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Dalla Torre when citing
a botanical name
.
For other Catalogues of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and other works see Links
Kitzbühel
-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
, Tyrol - 6 April 1928, Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
) 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 taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.
Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Dalla Torre when citing
Author citation (botany)
In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to citing the person who validly published a botanical name, i.e. who first published the name while fulfilling the formal requirements as specified by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature...
a botanical name
Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants...
.
Works
Partial List- Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. vol. 1-10. Leipzig 1894-
- with Anton HartingerAnton HartingerAnton Hartinger , was a Viennese artist specialized in flower painting. Hartinger was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1843 to 1851 and a pioneer in the field of chromolithography...
[Ill.] Atlas der Alpenflora. Wien: Verl. d. Dt. u. Österr. Alpenvereins, 1882-1884 - Die Alpenpflanzen im Wissensschatz der deutschen Alpenbewohner (1905)
- Flora der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol, des Landes Vorarlberg und des Fürstentums Liechtenstein", gemeinsam mit Ludwig von Sarnthein (1900-1913)
- with Heinrich von FickerHeinrich von FickerHeinrich von Ficker was a German-Austrian meteorologist and geophysicist who was a native of Munich. He was the son of historian Julius von Ficker .-Career:...
Klimatographie von Tirol und Vorarlberg. Wien: Gerold, 1909.
For other Catalogues of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and other works see Links
External links
- BHL Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus Lipsiae, G. Engelmann,1892-1902. Volumes 6, 8 and 9
- BHL Cynipidae, bearbeitet von dr. K. W. von Dalla Torre und prof. dr. J. J. KiefferJean-Jacques KiefferJean-Jacques Kieffer was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects. Educated as a priest, Kieffer taught natural science in Bitche, Lorraine while working on the description and classification of insects...
Series: Das Tierreich, 24. lfg. Hymenoptera Berlin,R. Friedländer und Sohn,1910 - BHL Handwörterbuch der Zoologie. Unter Mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. von Dalla Torre, bearb. von Dr. Friedrich Knauer with Friedrich Carl Knauer Stuttgart,F. Enke,1887.