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The History of Entomology in Croatia
has not been written yet, although certain parts have already been treated. I
hope that some day a group of experts shall appear which will perform this task
and fill in the gaps, based on the existing, as well as new contributions. One
among these tasks shall be to make a list of names and sources of biographic and
bibliographic data. My desire in putting these pages on the network was to
contribute to the making of such a list.
In his capital work on the history of Entomology in
Croatia: The Pionners of the research on the insects of Dalmatia, Guido
Nonveiller has treated the area of Dalmatia, while he also gave numerous
pieces of information for the continental part of Croatia. His exceptional book
is the basis for entomology history in Croatia and its neighbouring countries.
Still, the data will have to be updated for the entire country, and so, the
present page should be of assistance in this work, as well as for serving daily
needs and facilitating orientation through so many names.
The present Index of Names comprises the following
groups of individuals on whom data exist in publications or collections:
1. Biologists professionally or only occasionally
engaged in entomology; 2. amateurs of various callings; 3.
collectors and merchants; 4. individuals recorded as assisting
entomologists; 5. persons of various callings who wrote about insects and
their related animal groups, and 6. names we come across when studying
ento-museology and entomology history in Croatia.
Their contribution, be it more or less extensive, is
incorporated into the History of Entomology in Croatia. Recorded are also the
names of those still active in the area of entomology in Croatia, if there are
biographic and/or bibliographic data on them, or if they are known to research
the entomofauna of Croatia.
The list also includes the names of few Croatians who were
born or moved abroad, and there achieved major results in entomology.
The references accompanying the names of persons constitute
material for bio-bibliographic information. In some cases, lacking other data,
or as an example, an article by the said author was listed. In some references,
the data complement each other, while in others they point to different views of
the author in question. In a considerable number of encyclopaedic and other
references, the authors do not mention the entomological activity of the person
they wrote about, so that the present material may also serve as a compound to
biographies.
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