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Dr. Eduard Fleck
* 1841 Innsbruck, Austria
† 1917
Dr. Eduard Fleck
Born in Innsbruck E. FLECK studied natural sciences in Graz and Vienna. From 1888/89 until 1892 he collected in Deutsch-SW Africa, today Namibia, as geologist where he was sent by the Deutsche Kolonial-Gesellschaft. There he collected around Rehoboth (1888) and made a journey with VON FRANCOIS across the Kalahari to Lake Ngami (1890). Bird specimens which came to Berlin were described by REICHENOW. He is also commemorated in some plant names e.g. Acacia fleckii SCHINZ. His herbarium went to Z. His later residences are uncertain. He is said to have stayed in the U.S and to have taught natural sciences in St. Petersburg in 1893. But in 1893 he seems to have been in Innsbruck as well. In 1894 he moved to Romania where he became director of a brewery (or cement factory?) at Azuga via Predeal. He collected in the Bucegi mountains and in the Dobrudsa (1899, 1903) and published Die Macrolepidopteren Rumäniens between 1899 and 1904. His entomological collection went to the Museum Antipa in Bukarest. 1914 he returned to Innsbruck.. No biographical information is available in Romania and Innsbruck.
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FLECK E. (1894): Das Vogelleben Deutsch-Südwestafrikas und dessen Schauplatz. J. Orn. XLII, 5. Folge, 1. Bd., 291-347, 353-415.
FLECK E. (1894): Reiseausbeute aus Südwestafrika - Säugetiere, Reptilien und Batrachier, Fische, Myriapoden,Arachniden, Crustaceen.
FLECK E. (1901): Die Macro-Lepidopteren Rumäniens. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest (und Berlin).
FLECK E. (1904): Die Dipteren Rumäniens. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest 13.
FLECK E. (1904/05): Die Coleopteren Rumäniens. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest 13, 14.
GUNN M. & CODD L.E., 1981: Botanical Exploration of southern Africa. Balkema, Cape Town. 155 ff.
GEBHARDT L, 1970: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Bd. 2. J. Orn. 111, Sh. 45 ff.
GEBHARDT L., 1974: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Ein Nachschlagewerk. Bd. 3. Journal Ornithologie 115, Sonderheft, p. 105.
RAKOSY L., 1996: Die Noctuiden Rumäniens. Stapfia 46, p. 12.
REICHENOW A., 1900-1901: Die Vögel Afrikas. Bd. I. Geschichte: XVIII-XIX.
Pers. comm. S. FRAHNERT, Berlin, Germany, H. PIEPER, Kiel, Germany, G. TARMANN, Innsbruck, Austria, L. RAKOSY, M. STANESCU, Bucarest, Romania.
