{{Short description|German entomologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Curt Eisner | image = Curt Eisner.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Curt Eisner in 1974 | birth_date = April 28, 1890 | birth_place = Zabrze, Germany | death_date = December 30, 1981 | death_place = The Hague, Netherlands | fields = Entomology | known_for = Specialisation in Parnassinae (snow butterflies) | notable_works = Parnassiana nova series }}
'''Curt Eisner''' (April 28, 1890 in Zabrze – December 30, 1981 in The Hague) was a German entomologist who specialised in snow butterflies or Parnassinae. His collections of Parnassinae are in Naturalis, in Leiden, and his Ornithoptera and Morphidae are in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.In the 1930s he lived in Berlin Dahlem.
==Selected works== *Parnassiana nova, XII. Kritische Revision der Gattung Parnassius. (Fortsetzung 8). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 35 (4): 33—49.(1957) *Parnassiana nova, XV. Kritische Revision der Gattung Parnassius. (Fortsetzung 10). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 35: 177—203.(1957) * Parnassiana nova, XXXIII. Nachträgliche Betrachtungen zu der Revision der Subfamilia Parnassiinae. (Fortsetzung 6). ''Zoöl. Meded. Leiden'' 38 (17): 281—294, Taf. XXI—XXII.(1963) *Parnassiana nova XLIX. Die Arten und Unterarten der Baroniidae, Teinopalpidae und Parnassiidae (Lepidoptera). ''Zool. Verhand. Leiden'' 135: 1—96.(1974) *Parnassiidae-Typen in der Sammlung J. C. Eisner ''Zool.Verh.'', n° 81, 1966. frontispice couleur, 190 pp., 84 planches N&B hors-texte. *Obituary of Felix Bryk [http://research.yale.edu/peabody/jls/pdfs/1950s/1957/1957-11(1-3)55-Eisner.pdf pdf]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * Selected articles by Eisner for the Leiden Museum including the series on Parnassiana nova and ''Erebia'' [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;c=naturalis;rgn1=entire%20record;q1=C.%20Eisner;Submit.x=0;Submit.y=0;lang=en;sort=title;cc=naturalis;view=reslist;fmt=short;page=reslist;size=10;start=1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165421/http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;c=naturalis;rgn1=entire%20record;q1=C.%20Eisner;Submit.x=0;Submit.y=0;lang=en;sort=title;cc=naturalis;view=reslist;fmt=short;page=reslist;size=10;start=1 |date=2016-03-03 }} *[https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Eisner_Curt_Nota-lepidopterologica_2_0127-0135.pdf Zobodat Full bibliography in Nota Lepidopterologica]
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120421162952/http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=naturalis%3Bcc%3Dnaturalis%3Blang%3Den Naturalis Repository] free downloads of some Eisner papers (via search box) * [https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Nota-lepidopterologica_5_0114-0116.pdf Obituary] {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eisner, Curt}} Category:1890 births Category:1981 deaths Category:German lepidopterists Category:People from Zabrze Category:20th-century German zoologists
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