ABSTRACT
The rst record regarding forensic entomology research in Austria was in the late nineteenth century. It consisted of a systematic analysis of the grave fauna by the German medical doctor Hermann Reinhard, together with the renowned Viennese entomologist Friedrich Moritz Brauer. Brauer was custodian of the Diptera collection at the Royal Museum of Natural History in Vienna, and later became the director of the museum. He was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1900. The results of this early interdisciplinary cooperation were rst presented at the annual meeting of the Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna on April 6, 1881 and were subsequently published in the Transactions of the Royal ZoologicalBotanical Society (Reinhard 1882). The work titled Beiträge zur Gräberfauna (Contributions on the Fauna of Graves) dealt predominantly with scuttle ies (Diptera: Phoridae) and can be credited as an early classic work in the eld of forensic entomology.
