Hans Rebel was an
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n entomologist who specialised in
LepidopteraLepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...
.
Rebel, who had an early interest in
natural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
and butterflies, first became a lawyer. He devoted his spare time to studying Lepidoptera and established the entomological section of the Botanical and Zoological Society of Vienna. He succeeded
Alois Friedrich RogenhoferAlois Friedrich Rogenhofer was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.Beside him Josef Mann worked as a keen technician and collector...
(1831-1897) as keeper of the Lepidoptera collection of the
Naturhistorisches MuseumThe Naturhistorisches Museum Wien or NHMW is a large museum located in Vienna, Austria.The collections displayed cover , and the museum has a website providing an overview as a video virtual tour....
in Vienna, a post he held from 1897 to 1932. Rebel enriched the collections and as a
grand voyageur, made many collecting trips in Austro-Hungary and five trips in the
BalkansThe Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
. He directed the Department of Zoology in 1923 and was the museum's director general in 1925.
He published more than 300 publications on Lepidoptera and a catalogue of PalearcticThe Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...
butterflies Otto StaudingerOtto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals....
(1830-1900)-Catalog Lepidopteren des palaearctischen Faunengebietes. Friedlander. Berlin. 1901-1903. 1. Theil, S. I-XXXII, 1-411.
Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
(1899-1977) included Rebel as a character in his novel The Aurelian.
Sources
- Nonveiller, G. (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Zagreb: Croatian Natural History Museum : p 390. ISBN 978-9536645046
- Johnson, Coates (1999). Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. New York: McGraw-Hill. : xii + p372 . ISBN 978-0071373302 Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Vienne
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