About Johann Egger
Lived 1804 – 1866 (aged 61). Johann Egger was an Austrian entomologist, naturalist and physician.
Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger (15 May 1804, in Salzburg – 19 March 1866, in Vienna), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
Egger was a court physician in Vienna. Egger wrote only one scientific papers but this is an important reference. His collection is conserved in Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Works Egger, J. (1856). Neue Dipteren-Gattungen und Arten aus der Familie der Tachinarien und Dexiarien nebst einigen andern dipterologischen Verhandlungen des Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 6: 383-392 Egger, J. (1858). "Dipterologische Beiträge". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 8: 701–716.
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Who was Johann Egger?
Austrian entomologist (1804–1866)
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Johann Egger was born on 15 May 1804 in Salzburg.
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Johann Egger died on 19 March 1866 in Vienna.
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Johann Egger was an entomologist, naturalist and physician.
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Johann Egger was Austrian.
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