Felix Bryk

{{Short description|Austrian-Swedish entomologist and anthropologist (1882–1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} thumb|230px|Felix Bryk in 1928 '''Felix Bryk''' (21 January 1882, in Vienna – 13 January 1957, in Stockholm) was a Swedish anthropologist, entomologist and writer. In entomological circles, Bryk is best known as a lepidopterist; in anthropological history, for his studies in East Africa. He wrote on Carl Linnaeus and was a close friend of Curt Eisner, who worked with him on the Parnassinae.

==Books by Bryk==

'''Anthropology'''

* 1934. ''Circumcision in Man and Woman: Its History, Psychology and Ethnology''. New York: American Ethnological Press. * 1939. ''Dark Rapture: The Sex-life of The African Negro''. Walden Publications. * 1964. ''Voodoo-eros: Ethnological Studies In The Sex Life Of The African Aborigines''. New York: United Book Guild. * 1951. ''Linnée als Sexuallist''.

'''Entomology'''

* 1934. ''Lepidoptera. Baroniidae, Teinopalpidae, Parnassiidae pars I (Subfam. Parnassinae)''. Das Tierreich 64, Berlin & Leipzig. * 1935. ''Lepidoptera. Parnassiidae pars II (Subfam. Parnassinae)''. Das Tierreich 65, Berlin & Leipzig. * 1984. ''Lepidoptera. Parnassiidae pars II (Subfam. Parnassinae)'', 2nd ed. Berlin & Leipzig, LI.

== References == * Brinck, Per (1957) "In Memoriam: Felix Bryk," ''Opusc. Ent''. 22: 119–22.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bryk, Felix}} Category:Swedish entomologists Category:Swedish lepidopterists Category:1882 births Category:1957 deaths Category:20th-century Swedish zoologists