Josef Johann Mann (19 May 1804 – 20 March 1889), or Johann Josef Ritter von Mann, was a German Bohemian

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and a specialist in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) or lepidopterans is an order (biology), order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organ ...

. Mann was born in Jablonné v Podještědí,

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; ; ) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. In a narrow, geographic sense, it roughly encompasses the territories of present-day Czechia that fall within the Elbe River's drainage basin, but historic ...

(present-day

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). He was a painter, expedition collector and preparator at the Hofkabinet in

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, Austria. Mann worked with the curator

Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (22 December 1831, in Vienna – 15 January 1897, in Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was main ...

. He died in Vienna.

Bibliography

* Mann, J.: 1855, Die Lepidopteren gesammelt auf einer entomologischen Reise in Corsika. ''Verh. zool. – bot. Ver. Wien'', 5: 529 – 572. * Mann, J.: 1866, Aufzählung der in Jahre 1865 in der Dobrudscha gesammelter Schmetterlinge. ''Verh. zool. – bot. ges.''., 16, 1 – 40. * Mann, J.: 1866, Josef Emanuel Fischer Edler von Rösslerstamm. ''Nachruf. Verh. Zool. – Bot.Ges''., 16, 51 – 54. * Mann, J.: 1867, Schmetterlinge gesammelt im Jahre 1866 um Josefstahl in der kroatischen Militärgrenze.'' Verh. zool. – bot. ges.'', 17, 63 – 67, Wien. * Mann, J.: 1872, Verzeichniss der im Jahre 1851 bei Brussa in Kleinasien gesammelten Schmetterlinge. ''Wien ent. Monatschr''., 6: 356 – 371, 373 – 409.

References

* Hesselbarth, G. & Oorschot, H. van & Wagener, S.: 1995, ''Die Schmetterlinge der Türkei'', Band 2: 1179 – 1199. * Poggi, R. &. Conci, C.: 1996, ''Mem. Soc. ent. Ital''., 75, 69 * Rákosy, L.: 1996, Die Noctuiden Rumäniens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) ''Stapfia'' 46, 9 – 10 + portrait. * Nonveiller, G.: 1999, ''The Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia'': 205 – 206, 212 – 214 + portrait. * Gaedike, R. & Groll, E. K. eds. 2001, ''Entomologen der Welt'' (Biografien, Sammlungsverbleib). Datenbank, DEI Eberswalde im ZALF e. V.: „Mann Josef Johann“.

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