{{Short description|Russian entomologist (1837–1897)}} {{Infobox scientist |image=August_Feodorovitsh_Morawitz.jpg |native_name={{nobold|Август Моравиц}} |native_name_lang=ru |birth_date={{birth date|1837|8|22|df=yes}} |birth_place= St. Petersburg, Russia |death_date= 1{{death date and age|1897|9|6|1837|8|22|df=yes}} |death_place=Blankenburg, Germany |fields=Entomology |workplaces=Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science }}
'''August Feodorovich Morawitz''' ({{langx|ru|Август Фёдорович Моравиц|Avgust Fyodorovich Moravits}}; 22 August 1837 – 16 September 1897) was a Russian entomologist interested in Coleoptera.
==Education and family== Morawitz' parents were Ferdinand Joseph Kaspar Morawitz, a wealthy industrialist and wagon builder, and Amalie Friederike Widemann.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Erik-Amburger-Datenbank - Ferdinand Joseph Kaspar Morawitz|url=https://amburger.ios-regensburg.de/index.php?id=33657|access-date=2020-09-07|website=amburger.ios-regensburg.de}}</ref>
He grew up in St. Petersburg and visited the German school Annenschule.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Erik-Amburger-Datenbank - August Nikolai Morawitz|url=https://amburger.ios-regensburg.de/index.php?id=33656&mode=1|access-date=2020-09-07|website=amburger.ios-regensburg.de}}</ref> From 1855 to 1859, he studied medicine and zoology in Dorpat, Würzburg and Berlin.<ref name=":1" />
On 27 May 1876, he married Charlotte Bergholz,<ref name=":1" /> a pharmacy owner's daughter; they had five children:
# Rudolf Morawitz (25 May 1877, St. Petersburg – 23 June 1951, Braunschweig), a judge who retired early because of his "non-aryan blood";<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rudolf Morawitz 1877 - 1951 BillionGraves Record|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/Rudolf-Morawitz/8338530|access-date=2020-09-07|website=BillionGraves|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Publication Details - Der verdächtige Richter Rudolf Morawitz|url=https://hilkat.uni-hildesheim.de/vufind/SolrFindexrecord/582432111|access-date=2020-09-07|website=hilkat.uni-hildesheim.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Wassermann|title=III. Das Oberlandesgericht im "Dritten Reich"|url=https://www.oberlandesgericht-braunschweig.niedersachsen.de/download/36078}}</ref> # Paul Oskar Morawitz (3 April 1879 – 1936), a well known internist and physiologist; # Charlotte Morawitz (30 March 1881 – 8 October 1945, Marburg); # Hugo Paul Alexander Morawitz (11 October 1882, St. Petersburg); # Alice Morawitz (1884–1966).
==Career== He became Curator of the insect collections at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science when Édouard Ménétries retired from that post.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hermann|first=Adolphi|title=Leben, Gedanken, Weltanschauung eines Kurländers (1841 - 1922)|year=1923|url=https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/bitstream/handle/7/50267/Adolphi_H_Leben_Gedanken_1923_sn541216.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|pages=37–39}}</ref> He wrote (1862). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Coleopteren aus Südost-Sibirien. ''Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, St. Petersburg'', 5: 231-265. August Feodorovitsh Morawitz is not to be confused with his brother Ferdinand Ferdinandovitsch Morawitz (1827–1896), another St. Petersburg prominent entomologist associated with the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *Baker, D. B., 2004 Type material of Hymenoptera described by O. L. Radoszkowsky in the Natural History Museum, London, and the localities of A. P. Fedtschencko's Reise in Turkestan ''Dt. ent. Zeitschr.'' 51, 231-252.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morawitz, August Feodorovich}} Category:1837 births Category:1897 deaths Category:19th-century biologists from the Russian Empire Category:Entomologists from the Russian Empire