Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (14 July 1850 – 6 April 1928) was an
Austria
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n taxonomist,
entomologist and botanist.
Dalla Torre was born in
Kitzbühel, Tyrol. He studied natural sciences at the
University of Innsbruck
The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...
. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the
University of Innsbruck
The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...
.
He died in
Innsbruck, aged 77.
Works
Partial List
*''Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus.'' vol. 1-10. Leipzig 1894-
*with
Anton Hartinger ll.
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English
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''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 Ficker
Heinrich von Ficker (22 November 1881 – 29 April 1957) was a German-Austrian meteorologist and geophysicist who was a native of Munich. He was the son of historian Julius von Ficker (1826–1902).
Career
From 1911 he was a professor of met ...
''Klimatographie von Tirol und Vorarlberg''. Wien: Gerold, 1909.
Genera Siphonogamarum
For other Catalogues of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and other works see Links
References
External links
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*
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. Kieffer'' 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.
19th-century Austrian botanists
Austrian entomologists
Austrian taxonomists
1850 births
1928 deaths
Hymenopterists
Botanists with author abbreviations
Austrian untitled nobility
Karl Wilhelm
People from Kitzbühel
20th-century Austrian botanists
19th-century Austrian zoologists
20th-century Austrian zoologists
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