Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Morawitz was a Russian entomologist.
Occupation
entomologist, physician
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Born
August 3, 1827
Died
December 5, 1896
Overview
Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Morawitz (, ; 3 August 1827 in St. Petersburg – 5 December 1896 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist.
His parents were German emigrants from Silesia. He was brought up in a private school for boys. In 1853, Morawitz graduated from the Dorpat University (now Tartu University), Estonia with a 'Doctor of Medicine' degree. With a final year dissertation on the anatomy of Blatta germanica. After he graduated, he moved to St Petersburg. He then had a Doctors practise for 15 years until 1879.
But in his spare time he was interested in entomology. He was one of the founding members of the Russian Entomological Society in 1859. He first published scientific work on Coleoptera in 1860.
Morawitz also studied the collection of naturalist Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, who had collected significant numbers of insects from three explorations from 1869 to 1873 of Central Asia. He recorded 438 species belonging to 36 genera from Central Asia: 68 species of Andrena, 17 species from Europe and 51 new species.
