Hochverehrtester Herr! Letters from Austrian malacologists to the editors of the “Journal de Conchyliologie” in the second half of the 19th century

Part of the correspondence of the predominantly Austrian malacologists Brusina, Conemenos, Czeschka, Frauenfeld, von Hauer, Kleciach (Kleciak), Landauer, Parreys, Ressmann, Schwartz von Mohrenstern, Stossich, and Zelebor with the editors of the “Journal de Conchyliologie” Fischer and Crosse is discussed and depicted. These letters give a vivid picture of life and particularly malacology in Central Europe in the second half of the 19th century.