Hans Rebel

Hans Rebel (2 September 1861, Hietzing, near Vienna- 19 May 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Rebel had an early interest in natural history and butterflies but became, at first, a lawyer. He devoted his spare time to studying Lepidoptera and established an entomological section of the Botanical and Zoological Society of Vienna. He succeeded Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (1831-1897) as conservator of the Lepidoptera of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna a post he held from 1897 to 1932. Rebel enriched the collections and a "grand voyageur", he made many collecing trips in Austro-Hungary and five in the Balkans. He directed the Departement of Zoology 1923 and the the museum in 1925. He published more than 300 publications on Lepidoptera and a catalogue of Palearctic butterflies Otto Staudinger (1830-1900)-"Catalog Lepidopteren des palaearctischen Faunengebietes". Friedlander. Berlin. 1901-1903. 1. Theil, S. I-XXXII, 1-411.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) included him as a character in his novel "The Aurelian".

Sources

* Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates (1999). Nabokov's Blues. The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. McGraw-Hill (New-York) : , : xii + 372 p. ISBN|0-07-137330-6|date=September 2008
* Guido Nonveiller (2001). "Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia." Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.
* [http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/nhm/2Zoo/lepidoptera/welcomelep.html Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Vienne]

External links

* [http://www.lepidopterology.com/almanac/hist.htm Lepidopterology Gallery] Portrait