Franz Josef Kupido sometimes Cupido (6 August 1786, Brno- 17 December 1869) was a entomologist principally interested in Lepidoptera. He was born in Bohemia and did most of his work while a resident of the Austrian Empire.
Franz Josef Kupido was a Beamter . His collection is in the Moravian Museum, Brno. In 1825 Kupido described the autumn emperor moth, Perisomena caecigena .
Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in different positions between 1953 and 1969 and minister-president of the state of Bavaria from 1978 until 1988. Strauss is also credited as a co-founder of European aerospace conglomerate Airbus.
Josef Franz Wagner was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Austrian March King".
Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster.
The Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brünn was the official journal of the Natural History Society in Brno, published from 1861-1920. A free archive of the journal is available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Friedrich Moritz Brauer was an Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death. He wrote many papers on Diptera and Neuroptera.
Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an Austrian physicist. An assistant to the physicist Ernst Mach, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like electrons and atoms. Between 1901 and 1924 he taught physics at the German Technical University in Brno. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1911.
Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria was the second son of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771–1847) and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, and the maternal grandfather of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller, was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was a Professor and Section leader in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden where his collection is maintained. Heller was a taxonomist. He described many new species of world fauna. He was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc.
Wilhelmine Maria Franziska Neruda, also known as Wilma Norman-Neruda and Wilma, Lady Hallé, was a Czech virtuoso violinist, chamber musician, and teacher.
The Diocese of Brno is a Latin diocese located in the city of Brno in the ecclesiastical province of Olomouc in the Czech Republic.
Leopold Lojka was the chauffeur of the car carrying Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the time of Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo in 1914.
Josef Neruda was a Moravian organist and music teacher. Josef was a great-grandson of the composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda.
Franz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.
Perisomena caecigena, the autumn emperor moth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae, first described by Franz Josef Kupido in 1825. It lives in Italy and then from south-eastern Austria through Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, the western Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece to most of Turkey and the Caucasus Mountains of the Republic of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. There is also an isolated population in the mountains of Lebanon and Israel. Subspecies stroehlei is endemic to the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.
The Brno Conservatory, also Brno Conservatoire, was established in Brno on 25 September 1919 by Moravian composer Leoš Janáček.
Josef Wilhelm Klimesch was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in lepidoptera. His collection is housed in the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich.
Matthias Karl Ludwig Treumann was an Austrian actor, operetta singer (tenor), theatre director and writer.