Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)

History of the Aculeata research in North Croatia, North Slovenia and North Bosnia from 1800 till 1920

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and finally, became rector. Parallel with it, he filled the director position of the Natural History Museum in Poznan. During the WW2, he worked in Warsawa at Ujazdowski Hospital. Niezabitowski died in Poznan. In our point of view, he has 2 important papers titled "Materyaty do fauny Zlotek (Chrysididae) Galicyi" (Niezabitowskí 1901) and "Materyafy do fauny os (Vespidae) Galicyi" (Niezabitowski 1902). Although, in the titles Galicyi is clearly indicated, but high number of species are reported from different locations of the Polish Tatras.

Antoni Wierzejski (3rd May 1843 Skala na Podolu - 9th August 1916 Krakow, professor of zoology at Jagellonian University, Krakow). He studied at the high school in Lvov-Lemberg and later in Stanislav. In 1865, he began studying mathematics and natural sciences at Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, one of his teachers was Maksymilian Nowicki (see him separately). In 1878, he obtained postdoctoral position of associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. Initially, he worked for the St. Jack High School. Finally, he received the title of associate professor, and taught comparative anatomy at the Jagiellonian University. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences either and retired in 1912. Wierzejski published numerous species from Galicia and from the Polish Tatras (without exact data on collecting localities) (W

ierzejski 1868).

History of the Aculeata research in North Croatia,

North Slovenia and North Bosnia from 1800 till 1920

Oswald Heer (31st August 1809 Niederuzwill - 27th September 1883 Lausanne) Swiss geologist, botanist, paleobotanist and paleoentomologist, clergyman, professor of Zurich Polytechnic and member of the Zurich Canton Parliament, corresponding member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Oswald Heer was educated as clergyman in Halle and later, also in Halle, received his PhD. in medical sciences. From 1831, he returned back to Switzerland and did his service in St. Gallen Protestant church. Few years later, Oswald Heer became professor of botany at Zurich Polytechnic where he hold this position till his retirement. Heer-land in Svalbard (Spitzbergen) is named to his tribute. In our viewpoint, his 2 monographs are the most important, titled "Fossile Hymenopteren aus Oeningen und Radoboy" and "Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien" in which he described the following Aculeata species from Radoboj (Northern part of Croatia), lower Miocene: Vespa crab- roniformis Heer, 1867; Bombus grandaevus Heer, 1849; Sphex gigantea Heer 1867; Anthophorites thoracica Heer 1867 and Anthophorites longaeva Heer 1867.

Anton Korlevic (13th June 1851 Sv. Ivan od Sterne, Istria, - 28th January 1915 Zagreb). Anton Korlevic investigated mainly the southern territories of Croatia. I found only one paper of him, in which he provided faunistic data on Middle and North Croatia mainly from Pregrad, but we may find valuable data from Zagreb, Samobor, Stara Pazova (Ópazova) from all three groups (Symphyta, Parasitica and Aculeata), the title of this work: "Prilozi Fauni Hrvatskih Opnokrilaca" (Korlevic 1890). Anton Korlevic was the first university professor of entomology in Croatia. After primary and secondary education at Rijeka and Kastav, he graduated at the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Vienna. He was employed as high school teacher in Rijeka, Eszék (Osijek) and Zagreb.