Max Walter Peter Beier (1903-1979)
He was an Austrian entomologist and arachnologist who was born in Spittal an der Drau, in the province of Carinthia. He studied at Vienna University and was awarded a doctorate in 1927 and went to work in the Vienna Natural History Museum as an entomologist. He later became an arachnologist and specialized in pseudoscorpions; he went on to become the director of the Zoology department in 1967. He died in Vienna in 1979. He described a considerable number of new species of mantids