Johann Egger

Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger (15 May 1804, in Salzburg – 19 March 1866, in Vienna), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Egger was a court physician in Vienna. Egger wrote only one scientific papers Egger, J. 1856. Neue Dipteren-Gattungen und Arten aus der Familie der Tachinarien und Dexiarien nebst einigen andern dipterologischen Bemerkungen. Verh. Zool-Bot. Ges. Wien 6: 383-92 but this is an important reference. His collection is conserved in Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.

References

Nonveiller, G. 1999: The Pioneers of the research on the Insects of Dalmatia. - Zagreb, Hrvatski Pridodoslovni Muzej : 1-390
Schiner, J. R. 1867: [Egger, J.] Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Sitzungsber., Wien 17 531-540, Portrait online here

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