Ernst August Girschner

Who was Ernst August Girschner?

Ernst August Girschner, usually just Ernst Girschner was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Girschner was born in Torgau, Province of Saxony. He taught at the Gymnasium in Torgau. Girschner described many new species of Diptera but made much more important contributions notably formalising the use of chaetotaxy in Calyptratae "it was the merit of Mr. E. Girschner to give to Chaetotaxy a much greater development and application than it had had before, and to treat it as a sine qua non of descriptive dipterology. His enviable talent for drawing enabled him to illustrate his papers by diagrams more eloquent than any descriptions

He was a friend of entomologist Josef Mik.