About Friedrich Georg Hendel
Lived 1874 – 1936 (aged 61). Friedrich Georg Hendel was an Austrian entomologist and dipterologist.
Friedrich Georg Hendel (14 December 1874 in Vienna – 26 June 1936 in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian high school director and entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He described very many new species and made important contributions to the higher taxonomy of the Diptera.
His collection is in the Vienna Natural History Museum.
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
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Austrian entomologist (1874–1936)
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Friedrich Georg Hendel was born on 14 December 1874 in Vienna.
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Friedrich Georg Hendel died on 26 June 1936 in Baden.
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Friedrich Georg Hendel was an entomologist and dipterologist.
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Friedrich Georg Hendel was Austrian.
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