Hans Rebel

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Hans Rebel

Hans Rebel (born September 2, 1861 in Hietzing , † May 19, 1940 in Vienna ) was an Austrian entomologist who was particularly concerned with butterflies .

Life

Rebel studied law at the University of Vienna from 1881 to 1885 and received his doctorate in 1886 (Dr. jur.). He went into the judiciary and was a judge from 1891. In addition, he dealt with butterflies and became a recognized expert on small butterflies. In 1893 he gave up his legal career and went as a scientific assistant to the Natural History Court Museum in Vienna and studied zoology at the University of Vienna with a doctorate in 1895. The dissertation was about larvae of butterflies living in water. In 1896 he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum, in 1904 custodian adjunct and later curator in the butterfly collection (which he took over from Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer ), which he systematically expanded. In 1898 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and in 1906 he received the title of extraordinary professor. In 1923 he became director of the zoological collection at the Natural History Museum and in 1925 of the entire museum. In 1921 he became a councilor . He retired in 1933.

He undertook extensive collecting trips, including seven larger ones, in the Balkans, Greece, Crete and the Canaries and Azores, in South Arabia, Central Africa, the Sahara including Morocco, Egypt and Sudan, German New Guinea, Samoa Islands, Novaya Zemlya , but also edited the collections of other entomologists, such as that of Rudolf Grauer from Africa. Numerous initial descriptions and around 300 publications come from him and he also dealt with fossil insects. In 1901, together with Otto Staudinger , he published the catalog of the lepidoptera of the Palaearctic fauna area. He examined the butterflies in Transylvania (with Daniel Czekelius ) and in the lower Cerna Valley (around Orșova ). A focus of his work were the real sack bearers (psychids), peacock moths (Saturniidae), butterflies in Egypt and Ethiopia, the genus Parnassius , to which the red Apollo belongs, silk-producing butterflies and enclosed in amber.

In 1936 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1896 he founded the section for lepidopterology of the Zoological-Botanical Society and was its chairman until 1930. He received the Decoration of Honor for his services to the Republic of Austria, became a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Education in 1928 and founded the Association of Friends of the Natural History Museum in 1923. Since it was founded in 1916, he was an honorary member of the Vienna Entomological Society and he was an honorary member of the German Entomological Society and the Royal Entomological Society of London.

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personal data
SURNAME Rebel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hietzing
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1940
Place of death Vienna