- Hermann Škorpil
Václav Hermen(e)gild Škorpil ( _bg. Вацлав Херменгилд Шкорпил;
8 February 1858 ndash25 June 1923 ) was a Czech-Bulgaria narchaeologist andmuseum worker credited along with his brother Karel with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria, as well as ageologist ,botanist ,architect andlibrarian .Born in the city of
Vysoké Mýto (then "Hohenmauth" inAustria-Hungary , now part ofÚstí nad Orlicí District ,Pardubice Region of theCzech Republic ) on8 February 1858 , he finished high school inChrudim andPardubice and graduated from the Technical University inPrague and innatural sciences from theUniversity of Leipzig . From 1880 to 1906 he was a teacher at various Bulgarian cities:Plovdiv ,Sofia ,Sliven ,Rousse andVarna , teachingnatural history ,geography ,zoology , botany, arithmetic and theGerman language . He was the author of the firstgeologic map ofSouthern 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 thecurator of theVarna Archaeological Museum . He died in the city where he spent much of his life with his brother, theBulgarian Black Sea Coast port of Varna, on25 June 1923 . He was buried in an area near the city where he had unearthed an early Christianbasilica .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 andseaside resort Shkorpilovtsi were named after the brothers. Their hometown Vysoké Mýto is also atwin town of Varna.Major works
* "Monuments across Bulgaria" (1888, co-author)
* "Primitive people in Bulgaria" (1896)
* "Mounds" (1898, co-author)
* "Władysław Warneńczyk" (1923, co-author)References
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