Lajos Mitterpacher bust in Budapest District XIV

Ludwig (Ljudevit) Mitterpacher von Mitterburg (1734, Bilje – 1814) was a Hungarian agronomist,

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

, zoologist and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Mitterpacher was a professor of natural history in Budapest working with fellow professor

Matthias Piller Matthias Piller (1733-1788) was a Hungarian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and geologist. He was the founding Professor of Natural history at the University of Budapest where he maintained large collections of zoological, botanical and geolo ...

(1733–1788). He wrote ''Elementa Rei Rusticae in Usum Academiarum Regni Hungariae Budae: Typis Regiae Universitatis, Anno MDCCLXXIX and M. DCC. XCIV''( 1779 and 1794), a study of the theory and practice of agricultural science. and in 1783 with Matthias Piller Iter per Poseganam Sclavoniaeprovinciam mensibus Junio, et Julio Anno MDCCLXXXII susceptum. Regiae Universitatis, Budapest, a 147-page work with 16 plates in which they described new species of

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and

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

Works

* ''Kurzgefasste Naturgeschichte der Erdkugel : zum Behufe der Vorlesungen in der k.k. theresianischen Akademie.'' 1774 * ''Anfangsgründe der physikalischen Astronomie.'' 1776 * ''Elementa rei rusticae.'' 1779 * ''Physikalische Erdbeschreibung.'' 1789

References

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and Schenkling 1928-1929.''Index Litteratuae Entomologicae'' Horn, Berlin-Dahlem. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitterpacher, Ludwig 1734 births 1814 deaths Hungarian entomologists 19th-century Hungarian zoologists 19th-century Hungarian botanists Hungarian agronomists 18th-century Hungarian botanists 18th-century Hungarian zoologists