Anton Heinrich Hermann Fassl (7 December 1876,

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– 4 October 1922, Manaos) was a Bohemian

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and natural history specimen collector who worked in South America. Fassl was born in Komotau, Bohemia, son of a Anton senior (1848–1916) who was an antique goods dealer. In 1906, there was a case of theft against him by Hermann Rolle of the Kosmos natural history institute where Fassl worked briefly. Fassl was briefly sent to remand and then acquitted. A fresh appeal was made against the verdict but by then he had moved to South America with Otto Garlepp. Fassl collected Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in

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(1907-1908),

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and

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. In 1912 he went back to South America with his brother Eduard Fassl. He was sometime in

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, sometime at a dealership Naturhistorisches-Institut, 948 Zeidlerstrasse, Teplitz, Bohemia,

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, the Czech Republic). Following World War I, he settled at La Paz and began to supply specimens. He hired the services of collectors Hugo Carlos Boy and Alois Strympl with whom he clashed. He supplied specimens to

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and Karl Jordan. He died aboard a steamer ''Manauense'' below Teffé on the Amazon River.

Works

*Fassl, A. H. (1910): Die Raupe einer Uranide. ''Z. wiss. Insekt. Biol.,'' 6(10): 355. *Fassl, A. H. (1912): Kämpfende Schmetterlinge ''Entomologische Rundschau'' 29(10), pp. 1-72*Fassl, A. H. (1912–13): Tropische Reisen. IV. Muzo, das Land der schönsten Smaragde und Schmetterlinge ''Entomologische Rundschau'' 29(23), pp. 147–149; (24)155-157; 30(1)3-4; (3)14-16. *Fassl, A. H. (1922): Einige kritische Bemerkungen zu J. Röbers Mimikry und verwandte Erscheinungen bei Schmetterlingen" ''Entomologische Rundschau'' 39(4), pp. 15–16; (5)18-19; (6)22 *Fassl, A. H. (1922): Einige kritische Bemerkungen zu J. Röbers "Mimikry und verwandte Erscheinungen bei Schmetterlingen" ''Entomologische Rundschau'' 39(7), pp. 26–27 * Fassl, A. H. (1924): Nachträge: Gattung

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. In: ''Die Gross- Schmetterlinge der Erde'' ( Seitz, A. ed.), vol. 5, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 037- 1040; 1041 pl. 113

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* Anonymous 1925: [Fassl, A. H. H. jun.Ent. News, Philadelphia 36 : 96 1876 births 1922 deaths German lepidopterists People from Chomutov 19th-century German zoologists 20th-century German zoologists {{Germany-biologist-stub