# Felix Bryk

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

==External links==
*[http://sdei.de/biographies/ DEI biografi] List of obituaries. Portrait. Collection details

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