Karl Kraepelin
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Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin (/ˈkrɛpəlɪn/; German: [ˈkʁɛːpəliːn]; 14 December 1848 – 28 June 1915)[1] was a German naturalist who specialised in the study of scorpions, centipedes, spiders and solfugids, and was noted for his monograph Scorpiones und Pedipalpi (Berlin) in 1899, which was an exhaustive survey of the taxonomy of the Order Scorpiones.[2] From 1889 to 1914, he served as the Director of the Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg, which was destroyed during World War II, and worked on myriapods from 1901 to 1916.
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Karl Kraepelin | |
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Born | (1848-12-14)14 December 1848 Neustrelitz, Germany |
Died | 28 June 1915(1915-06-28) (aged 66) |
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Fields | Arachnology, Myriapodology |
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