Hermann Škorpil
Václav Hermenegild Škorpil (8 February 185825 June 1923) was an 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. Hermann Škorpil was born in the city of Vysoké Mýto (then Hohenmauth in the Austrian Empire, 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.
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Hermann Škorpil
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- Name
- Hermenegild Škorpil
- Occupation
- Archaeologist
- Born
- 8 February 1858
- Died
- 25 June 1923
- Nationality
- Bulgaria
- Education
- Charles University · Leipzig University · Czech Technical University in Prague
- Languages
- Czech · Bulgarian
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Václav Hermenegild Škorpil (8 February 185825 June 1923) was an 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. Hermann Škorpil was born in the city of Vysoké Mýto (then Hohenmauth in the Austrian Empire, 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.
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Hermann Škorpil was an anthropologist, archaeologist and architect, among other activities, of Bulgarian nationality. The anthropologist was born in Vysoké Mýto and died in Varna.
Hermann Škorpil was educated at Charles University, Czech Technical University in Prague and Leipzig University. The anthropologist held the position of museum director. Languages used include Bulgarian and Czech.
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He was the author of the first geological map of Southern Bulgaria. In 1884, he founded a museum in Sliven, as well as a museum of natural sciences in Rousse in 1902. 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.
Надпис на гръцки език известен на историческата ни наука като “Негованският надпис” и е вписан в националния регистър на древните надписи. Надписът е разчетен и регистриран през 1894 година от Херман Шкорпил. Той гласи: “Издигната за добър спомен на бога статуя, колкото може прелестна, когато бяха консули Сабин за втори път и Венуст”.
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• Name — Hermenegild Škorpil • Other Names — Hermann Škorpil • Occupation — Archaeologist • Born — 8 February 1858 • Died — 25 June 1923 • Illustration — Hermann and Karel Škorpil, Varna Archaeological Museum
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• Monuments across Bulgaria (1888, co-author) • Primitive people in Bulgaria (1896) • Mounds (1898, co-author) • Władysław Warneńczyk (1923, co-author)
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Hermann Škorpil was born in Vysoké Mýto.
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Hermann Škorpil died in Varna.
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