Josef Fahringer

Austrian entomologist (1876–1950)

Josef Fahringer (21 December 1876 – 18 December 1950) was an Austrian entomologist.

Fahringer was born in Baden bei Wien. He obtained a doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1904 and taught at a middle school in Vienna from 1904 to 1907. He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910, and at Brno from 1910 to 1913. Following military service as a captain during the First World War, he returned as a schoolteacher to Vienna, where in 1928 he was named director of the school. During his career, he took research trips to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Italy and Turkey.^[1]

He published the first modern monograph on Braconidae: Opuscula braconolocica (4 parts, 1925–37). A specialist of this group, he also made contributions regarding the systematics of other parasitic Hymenoptera.^[1]^[2]

References

Nachruf und Publikationsliste Josef Fahringer aus: Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 36. Jahrgang, 1951, 75-77^{[permanent dead link]}

^ ^a ^b Fahringer, Josef In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0, p. 747 f.
^ Fahringer, Josef (1876-1950), Entomologe Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation