Hans Georg Amsel (29 March 1905 – 20 October 1999) was a German entomologist with four publications ranging from 1951 to 1962. His home town was
Cologne
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, although he frequently was in
Kiel
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. His original job was in the banking industry, and he later worked in a bookstore. After quitting his job as bookstore worker, he decided to follow his heart and transfer to zoology, where he became an entomologist. His specific profession was studying
Lepidoptera
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. "Soon after he was appointed as Head of Department of Entomology at the Colonial and Overseas museum called to Bremen, then rendered military service and, worked as a private scholar, he came as entomologist at the State Collections of Natural History in
Karlsruhe
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," states a letter for his 60th birthday from the ''Journal of the Entomological Society of Vienna''. During Amsel's career, he authored about twenty-six different Lepidoptera species and genera, and published four books.
Species and genera recorded
See also
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:Taxa named by Hans Georg Amsel
References
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1905 births
1999 deaths
German entomologists
20th-century German zoologists
Scientists from Cologne