August Morawitz
{{Short description|Russian entomologist}}
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}}August Feodorovich Morawitz ({{langx|ru|Август Фёдорович Моравиц}}; 22 August 1837 in St. Petersburg – 16 September 1897 in Blankenburg) was a Russian entomologist interested in Coleoptera.
Education and family
Morawitz' parents were Ferdinand Joseph Kaspar Morawitz (1796-1844), a wealthy industrialist and wagon builder, and Amalie Friederike Widemann.{{Cite web|title=Erik-Amburger-Datenbank - Ferdinand Joseph Kaspar Morawitz|url=https://amburger.ios-regensburg.de/index.php?id=33657|access-date=2020-09-07|website=amburger.ios-regensburg.de}}
He grew up in St. Petersburg and visited the German school Annenschule.{{Cite web|title=Erik-Amburger-Datenbank - August Nikolai Morawitz|url=https://amburger.ios-regensburg.de/index.php?id=33656&mode=1|access-date=2020-09-07|website=amburger.ios-regensburg.de}} From 1855 to 1859, he studied medicine and zoology in Dorpat, Würzburg and Berlin.
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"{{Cite web|title=Rudolf Morawitz 1877 - 1951 BillionGraves Record|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/Rudolf-Morawitz/8338530|access-date=2020-09-07|website=BillionGraves|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Publication Details - Der verdächtige Richter Rudolf Morawitz|url=https://hilkat.uni-hildesheim.de/vufind/SolrFindexrecord/582432111|access-date=2020-09-07|website=hilkat.uni-hildesheim.de}}{{Cite book|last=Wassermann|title=III. Das Oberlandesgericht im "Dritten Reich"|url=https://www.oberlandesgericht-braunschweig.niedersachsen.de/download/36078}}
- Paul Oskar Morawitz (3 Apr 1879-1936), a well known internist and physiologist.
- 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 Curator of the insect collections at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science when Édouard Ménétries retired from that post.{{Cite book|last=Hermann|first=Adolphi|title=Leben, Gedanken, Weltanschauung eines Kurländers (1841 - 1922)|year=1923|url=https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/bitstream/handle/7/50267/Adolphi_H_Leben_Gedanken_1923_sn541216.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|pages=37–39}} 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 Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science.
References
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- 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.
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