Friedrich F. Tippmann

Friedrich F. Tippmann (born 5 October 1894 in Futak — died 5 August 1974 in Vienna) was a Hungarian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially the Cerambycidae.

He later studied engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and graduated going on to work in the cement and magnesium industry.

Tippmann married a Slovakian teacher Elisabeth Csillik and learnt many languages during his travels in including German, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, English, French, and had a working knowledge of Latin.

Towards the end of his life he had six cabinets with sixty drawers reaching from floor to ceiling and his library of 7000 books occupied a separate room.

The books included some of the rarest entomological works in the world, including Ulisse Aldrovandi's De animalibvs insectis libri septem cvm singvlorvm iconibvs ad viuum expressis (1602) and Charles De Geer's Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes (1752–1778).