Anton Hermann Fassl Explained

Anton Heinrich Hermann Fassl (7 December 1876, Komotau – 4 October 1922, Manaos) was a Bohemian entomologist 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 Colombia (1907-1908), Brazil and Ecuador. In 1912 he went back to South America with his brother Eduard Fassl. He was sometime in Berlin, sometime at a dealership Naturhistorisches-Institut, 948 Zeidlerstrasse, Teplitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Teplice, 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.[1] He supplied specimens to Ernst Hartert and Karl Jordan. He died aboard a steamer Manauense below Teffé on the Amazon River.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Fassl, A.H. . 1921 . In eigener Sache! . Entomologische Zeitschrift . 35 . 106.
  2. Seitz, A. . 1922 . A. H. Fassl † . Entomologische Rundschau . 39 . 45.
  3. Taut, K. . 1923 . A. H. Fassl †. . Entomologische Zeitschrift . 36 . 59-60.