Karel Václav Škorpil was a Czech-Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n archaeologist and museum

Museum

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 worker credited along with his brother Hermann

Hermann Škorpil

Václav Hermengild Škorpil was a Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Karel with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria, as well as a geologist, botanist, architect and librarian....

 with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria.

Born in the city of Vysoké Mýto

Vysoké Mýto

Vysoké Mýto is a town in the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic. Founded in 1262 by the Bohemian king, Přemysl Otakar II, it is situated near its original location, called Vraclav. Vysoké Mýto is a centre of tourism, due to its architectural monuments and the nature that surrounds it. Industrial...

 (then Hohenmauth in Austria-Hungary

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, now part of Ústí nad Orlicí District

Ústí nad Orlicí District

Ústí nad Orlicí District is a district within Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is city Ústí nad Orlicí. The district has borders with Pardubice District to the west, Svitavy District to the south and Chrudim District to the southwest.-External links:*...

, Pardubice Region

Pardubice Region

Pardubice Region is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located mainly in the eastern part of its historical region of Bohemia, with a small part in northwestern Moravia. It is named after its capital Pardubice. "There are a total of 452 municipalities in the region...

 of the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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) on 15 May 1859, he finished high school in Pardubice

Pardubice

Pardubice is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the river Elbe, 65 miles east of Prague. Pardubice has an antique centre square and old town, with many restaurants that stay open until late in the evening. There is an old Tower and a recently renovated Castle...

 before graduating from the Charles University

Charles University in Prague

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 and the Technical University

Czech Technical University in Prague

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 in Prague

Prague

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. In 1881, he moved to what was then Eastern Rumelia

Eastern Rumelia

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an administratively autonomous province in the Ottoman Empire and Principality of Bulgaria from 1878 to 1908. It was under full Bulgarian control from 1885 on, when it willingly united with the tributary Principality of Bulgaria after a bloodless revolution...

 (since 1885 united

Bulgarian unification

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 with the Principality of Bulgaria

Principality of Bulgaria

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) to work as a high-school teacher in the Bulgarian cities of Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

 (1882-1886), Sliven

Sliven

Sliven is the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality. It is a relatively large town with 89,848 inhabitants, as of February 2011....

 (1886-1888), Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

 (1888-1890, 1894-1915) and Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo

Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred to as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Tarnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famous as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists...

 (1890-1894). Since 1894, Karel settled permanently in the port city of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

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, where he founded the Varna Archeological Society in 1901 and the Varna Archaeological Museum

Varna Archaeological Museum

The Varna Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the city of Varna on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.Founded on 3 June 1888, when a museum, part of the City Library was established, the Varna Archaeological Museum is situated in a historic building designed in the Neo-Renaissance...

 in 1906, of which he was the director from 1915 to his death. He was also a teacher and lecturer at the Naval Academy

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy

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 and the trade school.

As a young teacher, Karel Škorpil came to be interested in archeology. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he published around 150 works, whether as the sole author or in collaboration with his brother, including 30 in German

German language

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, Russian

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 and Czech

Czech language

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, primarily devoted to Bulgaria. He discovered and headed the excavations of the medieval Bulgarian castles at Pliska

Pliska

Pliska is the name of both the first capital of Danubian Bulgaria and a small town which was renamed after the historical Pliska after its site was determined and excavations began....

, Preslav

Preslav

Preslav was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 to 972 and one of the most important cities of medieval Southeastern Europe. The ruins of the city are situated in modern northeastern Bulgaria, some 20 kilometres southwest of the regional capital of Shumen, and are currently a...

 and Madara; he also unearthed the prehistoric stilt house

Stilt house

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s in Lake Varna

Lake Varna

Lake Varna is the largest by volume and deepest liman or lake along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, divided from the sea by a 2 km-wide strip of sand and having an area of 17 km², maximal depth 19 m, and a volume of 166 million m³....

, among others. A member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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 and the Bulgarian Archeological Institute, he died in Varna on 9 March 1944 and was buried among the ruins of the old Bulgarian capital Pliska.

All research by the Škorpil brothers was self-funded and all unearthed monuments have been preserved in Bulgaria. A street in Varna where their house is located and the Black Sea

Black Sea

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 village and seaside resort

Seaside resort

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 Shkorpilovtsi

Shkorpilovtsi

Shkorpilovtsi is a small village and sea resort in Dolni Chiflik Municipality on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located only 100 m away from one of the most beautiful beaches on the Moesian Black Sea Coast...

 were named after the brothers. Their hometown Vysoké Mýto is also a twin town

Twin Town

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 of Varna. Škorpil Glacier

Škorpil Glacier

Škorpil Glacier is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Stefan Ice Piedmont and W of Solun Glacier...

 on Graham Land

Graham Land

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, Antarctica is named after Karel Škorpil.

Major works

• Monuments across Bulgaria (1888, co-author)
• Mounds (1898, co-author)
• Władysław Warneńczyk (1923, co-author)
• AbobaPliska (1905)
• Monuments from the capital Preslav (1930)