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Feb 04, 1869 Újezd, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic Died on 11 Sep 1945 (aged 76)
Austrian-Czech physician and entomologist (1869–1945)
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About Karl Schawerda
- Karl or Carl Schawerda (4 February 1869 in Újezd, Moravia – 11 September 1945 in Vienna) was an Austrian Czech entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Karl Schawerda was a physician of Czech origin, a gynecologist and entomologist mainly devoted to researching moths, but also has significant as an author describing some of the new forms of Parnassius apollo Linnaeus, 1758. His father was a railway engineer.
- After primary and secondary education he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, After graduation in 1894 a gynecologist for four years at the Krankenhaus St.
- Anna Kinderhospital in Vienna.
- Later he worked as a gynecologist and obstetrician in Vienna.
- In his practice he achieved the rank of "Obermedizinalrat" – "chief medical advisor. He described several new species of moths.
- His collection of 50,000 specimens is mostly stored in Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
- A smaller portion of his collection, mainly Palaearctic species of Microlepidoptera Übersee Museum Bremen in Bremen.
