Johann Karl Megerle von Mülfeld is an Austrian malacologist and entomologist .
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Megerle " . |
He was the son of a curator at the Imperial Cabinet of Natural History in Vienna, Johann Baptista Megerle von Mülfeld (1742–1813), who received the noble title von Mülfeld in 1803, and brother of Johann Georg Megerle von Mülfeld (1780–1831). Since 1786, he worked without pay in the Cabinet of Natural History, where he studied crustaceans, insects, mollusks and snails, as well as echinoderms , sponges, and others. In 1792, he became assistant curator and leader of the mineral collection. He mainly collected insects in Silesia , Galicia and Dalmatia . From 1798 to 1806, he had his own auction house for the sale of natural science collections (especially insects) at the Vienna Hospital, which he founded in order to compete with what he considered expensive trade in exhibits in Vienna.
He also had an extensive collection, which he sold to the Imperial Cabinet of Natural History in 1808. He also arranged the purchase of a collection of European Gundiana butterflies. Old insect collections in Hofburg died in a fire in 1848 [2] .
The second collection, which he collected after 1808, was bought after his death by Count J. Ferrari, after whose death it also became the property of the Vienna Museum. Its collection, which included about 10,000 insects, 3,000 minerals, including some diamonds and 2,000 mollusk shells, became a landmark of Vienna.
He wrote articles about mollusks and published catalogs of insects for his auction house. He was also a famous coin collector.
From 1826 to 1840 he had his own entertainment theater at the Gentzgass in Vienna ( Mühlfeldtheater ).
He first described many species of mollusks and insects. The brachiopod Mergelia was named after him [3] .
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1054944083 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Naturhistorisches Museum Wien: History of the entomological collections
- ↑ Mergelia, Spektrum Lexikon Biologie
Literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Megerle, Karl, auch JK . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 17. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1867, S. 261 f. ( Digitalisat ).