Karl Kraepelin

Karl Matthias Friedrich Magnus Kraepelin 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. 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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General Info

Male

Date of Birth

December 14th, 1848

Age

177

Birth Place

Germany, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Date of Death

June 28th, 1915

Died Aged