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Revision as of 09:02, 24 November 2008
Guido Nonveiller | |
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| Born | June 5, 1913 |
| Died | April 7, 2002 (aged 88) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology |
| Institutions | International Brigades, Fao, Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
Guido Nonveiller (05 June 1913, Rijeka Belgrade - 07 April 2002) was a Croatian entomologist, officer in the International Brigades, United Nations expert and professor at the University of Belgrade. He was known for his political and scientific activism and perhaps as the world authority for the African and Palaearctic Mutillidae (velvet ants).
Life
His father Lino Nonveiller was a chemical engineer who travelled a lot and educated Guido and his sister in Rijeka, Vienna and Split. In 1927, his mother introduced him to Peter Novak, an early Croatian entomologist, who made a lasting effect on the young boy and stimulated a life long passion for insects. At sixteen (1929) he discovered his first new insect species on Biokovo mountains. The same year it was named after him - Trechus nonveilleri by Giuseppe Miller from Trieste.
In his early twenties, during probation work at the University of Belgrade, he got involved in politics and engaged in different students movements that led him to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was a officer in International Brigades from 1937 until he was captured during Franco's victory in April 1939 and incarcerated in the prison of Castres. He escaped in 1942 with 36 other Brigadists and joined the French Resistance. After the war from 1944 to 1945, he was appointed as the first Yugoslav ambassador in France
In 1945, he returned to the University of Belgrade, where he taught from 1946 to 1960. He founded and directed for ten years the Federal Institute for Plant Protection of Yugoslavia. He also held a head of the Plant Protection Service and the Yugoslav Federal Ministry from 1947 to 1949. In 1960 he moved to Tunis as plant protection officer, and in 1962 as United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization expert to Yaounde, Cameroon.
In 1989 he was made Commandeur of l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, the highest level of the academic honor given out by the French government.
From 1992 to 1996, in his early eighties, he moved to Paris to work at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and published over 20 papers on his work on Lepidoptera.
In 1996 the Spanish government recognized his endeavors to defend the Republic and declared him honorary citizens of Spain.
In 2006 the Croatian Entomological society named their bibiographical database Nonveilleriana in his memory
Work
Nonveiller was a world authority on the African and Palaearctic Mutillidae and Bradynobaenidae (Hymenoptera), a leading specialist for several groups of Coleotera of the Balkans and adjacent areas and a prominent expert in economic entomology and historigraphy of his time.
In the late 1980, despite his age, Nonveiller was among the world pioneers in application of personal computers in entomology. He started with Commodore 64 in 1983.[1]
Publications
Nonveiller wrote and published in German, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian, resulting in more than 150 publications, description of 33 new general/subgenera and over 330 new species-group taxa assembling one of the world largest collection of African Mutillidae including more than 120,000 specimens collected by himself and his wife Nadezda in Cameroon.[2]
Bibliography
- Nonveiller, G. (1995). Recherches sur les mutillides de l'afrique xvii. note pour servier a la connaissance du genre Pristomutilla ashmead, 1903. (hymenoptera, mutillidae). Entomofauna, 16:29-120.
- Guido Nonveiller (2001). Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia. Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb): 390.
- G. Nonveiller (2004) "Memoirs of a 20th century citizen". University of Belgrade
External links
- At Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Pioneers-Research-Insects-Dalmatia/dp/9536645041/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208324487&sr=8-2
- Croatian entomological Database http://www.agr.hr/hed/hrv/bibl/osobe/osobeFR.htm
- At Googlebooks: http://books.google.com/books?id=3RoJUIunQ-UC&pg=PA827&lpg=PA827&dq=nonveiller&source=web&ots=H7uPAWLwQm&sig=VO8b7vkx-gncu9heouE5ZIkj4j4
- Family Mutillidae: http://www.zmuc.dk/EntoWeb/collections-databaser/Hymenoptera/Mutillidae%20first%20half%20of%20genera.htm
- Trechus nonveilleri: http://www.zipcodezoo.com/Animals/T/Trechus_nonveilleri.asp
- ^ Stefano de Nonveiller, Genuine polyglot.
- ^ Stefano de Nonveiller, Genuine polyglot.