Johann Andreas Schnabl (born Jan Sznabla, 1838 - 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and was an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century, hence the German heritage.
Trained as a physician, he taught classes in natural history in Warsaw. His wide-ranging travels included scientific trips to the Caucasus, the Urals, Lapland, the Pyrenees, Corsica, Hungary and Peru.[1]
He is the taxonomic author of the family Fanniidae[2] and the genera Spilogona and Paregle.[3] With Heinrich Dziedzicki, he described the genera Polietina, Pegoplata and Villeneuvia.[4]
He is commemorated with the species Mycetophila schnablii (a fungus gnat) and Cheilosia schnabli (a dipteran species) as well as Amorphochilus schnablii, commonly known as the smoky bat, a chiropteran native to western South America.[1]