August Feodorovich Morawitz (russian: Август Фёдорович Моравиц; 22 August 1837, in St. Petersburg – 16 September 1897, in

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) was a Russian

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

interested in

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Education and family

Morawitz' parents were Ferdinand Joseph Kaspar Morawitz (1796-1844), a wealthy industrialist and wagon builder, and Amalie Friederike Widemann. He grew up in St. Petersburg and visited the German school Annenschule. From 1855 to 1859, he studied medicine and zoology in Dorpat,

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and

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. On 27 May 1876, he married Charlotte Bergholz (1858-1939), a pharmacy owner's daughter; they had five children: # Rudolf Morawitz (25 May 1877, St. Petersburg - 23 Jun 1951, Braunschweig), a judge who retired early because of his " non-aryan blood" # Paul Oskar Morawitz (3 Apr 1879-1936), a well known internist and

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical a ...

. # Charlotte Morawitz (30 Mar 1881-8 Oct 1945 Marburg) # Hugo Paul Alexander Morawitz (11 Oct 1882, St. Petersburg) # Alice Morawitz (1884 - 1966)

Career

He became

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of the insect collections at the

Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and dis ...

when

Édouard Ménétries Édouard Ménétries (Paris, France, 2 October 1802 – St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, 10 April 1861) was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist. He is best known as the founder of the Russian Entomological Society. Ménétries w ...

retired from that post. He wrote (1862). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Coleopteren aus Südost-Sibirien. ''Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, St. Petersburg'', 5: 231-265. August Feodorovitsh Morawitz is not to be confused with his brother Ferdinand Ferdinandovitsch Morawitz (1827–1896), another St. Petersburg prominent entomologist associated with the

References

*Baker, D. B., 2004 Type material of Hymenoptera described by O. L. Radoszkowsky in the Natural History Museum, London, and the localities of A. P. Fedtschencko's Reise in Turkestan ''Dt. ent. Zeitschr.'' 51, 231-252. {{DEFAULTSORT:Morawitz, August Feodorovich Russian entomologists 1837 births 1897 deaths Biologists from the Russian Empire