Hans Rebel

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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.

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Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates (1999). Nabokov's Blues. The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. McGraw-Hill (New-York) : , : xii + 372 p.

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Guido Nonveiller (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.
(English) Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Vienne