Helmuth Holzinger, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Helmuth Holzinger

Austrian entomologist

Date of Birth: 15-May-1928

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1992

Profession: lepidopterist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Helmuth Holzinger (May 15, 1928 – October 1, 1992) was an Austrian entomologist.
He was born in Vienna and died there., In 1953, he married Ruth Raffael, a painter, who painted all plates of his monograph.
In 1972, he became editor of the Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Entomologen, where nearly all his publications would be published. Holzinger specialized in the study of Heliconius and became a world-renowned specialist publishing his works mainly in German but also in English.After his death, his huge monograph on the genus Heliconius was published by Sciences Nat.
His collection of about 2900 specimens is now at Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.