Franz Friedrich Kohl (13 January 1851, in

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– 15 December 1924, in

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) was an

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entomologist and folksong researcher. Kohl was initially a middle school professor in

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and then

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. He next worked in the Entomology Department,

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. He specialised in ''

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

'', especially ''

Sphecidae The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps of the suborder Apocrita that includes sand wasps, mud daubers, and other thread-waisted wasps. The name Sphecidae was formerly given to a much larger grouping of wasps. This was found to be p ...

''. He is best known for his monograph ''Die Crabronen der paläarktischen Region monographisch bearbeitet''. Ann. Hofmus. Wien. 29: 1-453 (1915).

References

* Maidl, F. (1887 - 1951) 1925. ohl, F. F.''Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien'' 38 174-179 * Musgrave, A. 1932. ''Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775 - 1930''. Sydney 180 * Nonveiller, G. 1999. ''The Pioneers of the research on the Insects of Dalmatia''. Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej: 1-390 202

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kohl, Franz Friedrich 1851 births 1924 deaths 19th-century Austrian people 20th-century Austrian people Austrian entomologists People from Amstetten District