Johann Andreas Schnabl

Johann Andreas Schnabl (* 1838 ; † 1912 ) was a German-Polish entomologist and doctor.

His original name was Jan Sznabla, but returned to the originally German name of his family, who had adapted it to Polish when they moved from Dresden to Warsaw at the end of the 18th century. Since Warsaw was part of Russia at the time, he was a Russian citizen. He studied medicine and did his doctorate in it, practiced as a doctor and taught natural history and anatomy at the Classical Academy in Warsaw.

Schnabl had traveled widely (Urals, Caucasus, Lapland, Pyrenees, Corsica, Hungary, Peru) and collected insects on his travels, which he sent to the Berlin Museum of Natural History. Sometimes he traveled with Wladyslaw Taczanowski . He published mostly in German on entomology and in Polish on medicine. His specialty were Diptera (Diptera), especially the family of fanniidae and Heinrich Dziedzicki flowers fly (Anthomyiidae).

The South American bat Amorphochilus schnablii (Peters 1877) is named in his honor. The fungus gnat Mycetophila schnablii and the Diptere Cheilosia schnabli are named after him.

Fonts

• Contributions à la faune diptérologique . St. Pétersbourg, 1887 Archives
• with Heinrich Dziedzicki: The Anthomyids . Nova Acta. Dep. Of the Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. German Academy of Natural Scientists; Vol. XCV, No. 2, Halle, 1911 Archives

literature

• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press 2009