Karl or Carl Schawerda was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n Czech entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

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Karl Schawerda was a physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 of Czech origin, a gynecologist and entomologist  mainly devoted to researching moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

s , 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

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

, 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

Naturhistorisches Museum

The Naturhistorisches Museum Wien or NHMW is a large museum located in Vienna, Austria.The collections displayed cover , and the museum has a website providing an overview as a video virtual tour....

 in Vienna. A smaller portion of his collection, mainly Palaearctic species of Microlepidoptera

Microlepidoptera

Microlepidoptera is an artificial grouping of moth families, commonly known as the 'smaller moths' . These generally have a wingspan of under 20 mm, and are thus harder to identify by external phenotypic markings than macrolepidoptera...

 Übersee Museum Bremen

Übersee Museum Bremen

The Übersee Museum Bremen is a Natural History and Ethnographic museum in Bremen, Germany. In an integrated exhibition, Nature, Culture and Trading, it presents aspects of overseas regions with permanent exhibitions relating to Asia, South Pacific/Oceania, Americas and Africa.-History:In 1875,...

in Bremen.

Works

Partial list

• Schawerda, K.: 1908, Bericht über lepidopterologische Sammelreisen in Bosnien und in der Hercegovina. Jahr. des Wiener Ent. Ver. Jahrg. XIX: 85 – 126.
• Schawerda, K.: 1910, Zwei Arctiidenformen aus Bosnien und der Hrzegowina. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich – königlichen zoologisch – botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 60, 90 – 93.

External links

• Biologiezenrtum In German. Gives collecting countries and publication list.