sentences:  On 19 April 1952 Attems died on his usual way to the museum.Attems was regarded for synthesizing and generalizing existing knowledge, and making it accessible to future generations.The myriapodologist Richard L. Hoffman, writing nearly 50 years after Attems' death, recognized this skill in Attems' major monographs, most prominently in three volumes on the Polydesmidea published from 1937 to 1940, "the capstone of an illustrious lifetime of accomplishment".