Hermann Škorpil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hermann Škorpil

Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1858

Place of Birth: Vysoké Mýto, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1923

Profession: architect, historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Czech Republic, Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Hermann Škorpil

  • Václav Hermenegild Škorpil (Bulgarian: ?????? ?????????? ???????; 8 February 1858 – 25 June 1923) 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. Born in the city of Vysoké Mýto (then Hohenmauth in Austria-Hungary, now part of Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic) on 8 February 1858, he finished high school in Chrudim and Pardubice and graduated from the Technical University in Prague and in natural sciences from the University of Leipzig.
  • From 1880 to 1906 he was a teacher at various Bulgarian cities: Plovdiv, Sofia, Sliven, Rousse and Varna, teaching natural history, geography, zoology, botany, arithmetic and the German language.
  • He was the author of the first geologic map of Southern Bulgaria.
  • In 1884, he founded a museum in Sliven, as well as a museum of natural sciences in Rousse in 1902.
  • From 1906 to his death, he was the curator of the Varna Archaeological Museum.
  • He died in the city where he spent much of his life with his brother, the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast port of Varna, on 25 June 1923.
  • He was buried in an area near the city where he had unearthed an early Christian basilica. 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 village and seaside resort Shkorpilovtsi were named after the brothers.
  • Their hometown Vysoké Mýto is also a twin town of Varna.

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