Fritz Netolitzky
German botanist and entomologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fritz Netolitzky was a German botanist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He described many new species. Fritz Netolitzky was born in Zwickau on 1 October 1875 into a respected family who had lived in Rokitnitz since the early 18th century. His grandfather taught him natural history and Fritz Netolitzky went on to study in Prague, Vienna and Strasbourg. Aged 24 he gained a Ph.D. in medicine. Following this he served as a Kaiserjäger for one year and he also served as a doctor on a ‘Kosmos-Linie’ ship registered in Hamburg, a journey which took him along the South American west coast. Fritz Netolitzky taught at the University of Vienna , then at the University of Innsbruck then at the University of Graz . From 1910 to 1940 he taught at the University of Chernivtsi.From 1940 to 1941 he worked at the University of Iasi, then he was Professor of Botany at the University of Vienna. With his sister Magdalena and brother, Richard, Fritz Netolitzky wrote a parody of Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter set in Egypt- The Egyptian Struwwelpeter
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