August Feodorovich Morawitz (; 22 August 1837 in

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– 16 September 1897 in Blankenburg) was a Russian

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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

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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

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

. # 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

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when

Édouard Ménétries Édouard Ménétries (Paris, France, 2 October 1802 – St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, 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 Entomologists from the Russian Empire 1837 births 1897 deaths Biologists from the Russian Empire