Max Beier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Beier

Austrian arachnologist and entomologist

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1903

Place of Birth: Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia, Austria

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1979

Profession: zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, arachnologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Max Beier (6 April 1903 in Spittal an der Drau – 4 July 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian arachnologist and entomologist.He studied zoology at the University of Vienna, and obtained his PhD there in 1927.
He took up a post at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, in the same year, developing an expertise in pseudoscorpions.He was appointed Director of the zoological department of the Vienna Museum in 1962, and retired in 1968.A list of Beier's 398 scientific papers was published, with an obituary, in Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien.
252 were on pseudoscorpions.He was editor of the Orthopterorum Catalogus and an updated edition of the volume on insects in the Handbuch der Zoologie.