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

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entomologist and a specialist in Lepidoptera. Mann was born in

Jablonné v Podještědí Jablonné v Podještědí (until 1946 Německé Jablonné; german: Deutsch Gabel, until 1901 ''Gabel'') is a town in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,700 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and ...

, Bohemia (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 ma ...

. 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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