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Hermann Škorpil

1858 – 1923

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Václav Hermenegild Škorpil (Bulgarian: Вацлав Херменгилд Шкорпил; 8 February 1858 – 25 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. 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 th