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About Otto Scheerpeltz
- Otto Scheerpeltz (16 July 1888, Olomouc - 10 November 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles, particularly the rove-beetles, Staphylinidae. Scheerpeltz was born in Olomouc where he went to the local schools.
- Although interested in plants and animals, he followed his father's advice to study civil engineering at the Technical University.
- He taught geometry and technical drawing for a while in Vienna and became a full-time teacher in 1910.
- He started studying zoology and botany in 1922 and received a doctoral summa cum laude in 1930.
- He did not complete his habilitation due to the outbreak of World War II.
- He retired as a teacher from the Schottenfelder Oberrrealschule, Vienna in 1945 and joined the Natural History Museum, Vienna in 1948.
- He helped build the collections and the library there and retired in 1953.His collection of Staphylinidae included 300000 specimens with about 10,000 types was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum, Vienna.
- He authored a catalogue of the Staphylinidae of the world in collaboration with Max Bernhauer.
- Published in 1926, they described 12,740 species.
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