Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in the Austrian part of Carpathian Basin from 1760 till present
144 Natura Somogyiensis Otto Guglia (22nd September 1904 Wien - 29th April 1984 Wien) Guglia was bom in Vienna, where he attended his schools. He studied history and geography at the University of Graz, Munich, Würzburg and Vienna, After his graduation in Vienna, Guglia worked for the Ministry of Education until his retirement in 1970. His second love was botany and entomology. Guglia had several excursions to the Pannonian regions of Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. He published the zoogegoraphical analysis of Burgenland, where we may find Aculeata faunistic data either, titled: "Die tiergeographischen Leitelemente der burgenländischen Insektenfauna" (Guglia 1977). Hermann Priesner (19th November 1891 Linz — 1 Ith August 1974 Linz). After finishing the local High School in Linz, he continued his studies in zoology at the University of Graz, where he defended his PhD thesis either. Priesner started his career as natural history teacher till he received job at the Royal Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and a guest-professor status at University of Fouad and Ibrahim in Cairo till his retirement in 1957. His extensive privat collections are owned by: Apoidea (without Halictidae) - Maximilian Schwarz, Halictidae - P. Andreas Werner Ebmer, Sphecidae and Ichneumonidae - Natural History Museum Vienna, Proctotrupoidea and Egyptian Tiphiidae - Smithsonian Institution in Washington (USA). Pompilus minutulus sim- plicicrus Priesner, 1960 was described from: Österreich: Burgenland: Winden s. See which is proved to be synonym of Arachnospila minutula (Dahlbom, 1842) (Priesner 1960). Auplopus rectus pallipes Priesner, 1967 described from: Simontomya, Winden, Neusiedl, Wien and Banyuls-sur-Mer is synonym of Auplopus rectus (Haupt, 1927) and Auplopus albifrons crassus Priesner, 1967 described from Eichkogel bei Mödling is synonym of Auplopus albifrons (Dalman, 1823) (Priesner 1967). In the Pompilidae part of "Die Hymenopteren des Nordostalpengebietes und seines Vorlandes", there are high number of faunistic data from the western part of the Carpathian Basin, like Breitenbrunn, Neusiedl a. See., Winden, Oberweiden etc. (Priesner 1982). Further valuable faunistic data we may find in his series titled "Studien zur Taxonomie undfaunistik der Pompiliden Österreich" (Priesner 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969). Stefan Zimmermann (27th October 1896 Kutna Hora (Kuttenberg) - 4th July 1980). He attended schools in Graz, Klagenfurt, Agram, Vienna (Theresianum), Bolzano, Lviv and Linz. During the war, Zimmermann joined to Linzer Feldhaubitzenregiment No. 3, and from December 1915 till February 1918 without interruption he was at the battlefields. Zimmermann graduated at Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna, then specialized in ophthalmology but, he also visited zoological lectures. In zoology, initially, he interested in malacology, later in entomology with special focus for ants and cockoo wasps. As medical doctor, he started his career at Department of Ophthalmology, Rudolf Hospital in Vienna. From 1922, he became correspondent member of the Natural History Museum, Vienna where he specialized for Chrysididae. He completed the Austrian fauna-cataloge (Zimmermann 1954) and further data, we may find, in his 2 papers, titled "Neue Goldwesepenfunde in Österreich" (Zimmernmann 1960, 1961). Bruno Pittioni (4th April 1906 Vienna - 28th july 1972). Pittioni graduated at the University of Vienna in zoology. After several years working as high school teacher, he lost his job in 1938 due to the political situation and emigrated to Sofia, where he found job as assistant at the Royal Bulgarian Museum. Here in Sofia, Pittioni was drafted as Bulgarian interpreter to the Wehrmacht. After his next return to Sofia, he was suspected to be German spy and inprisoned there. Pittioni's Bulgarian years was his most productive years, considering their papers on the Apoidea fauna of Burgenland. Three papers
