Anton Handlirsch

He worked on many groups including Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera.

Although he began to show an interest in zoology, his father wished that he obtain a degree in pharmacy.

After working for a while as a pharmacist, Anton and his brother Adam met the entomologist Friedrich Moritz Brauer and Anton later became an assistant to him in the department of entomology of the Natural History Museum of Vienna in 1892.

He specialised in the Hymenoptera and the Hemiptera, his work concerning the evolution of these and other insects.

[1] Handlirsch's fossil collection is mostly in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.