Karel Brančik Explained

Karel Brančik
Birth Date:13 March 1842
Birth Place:Stará Bystrica, Austrian Empire (today in Slovakia)
Death Place:Trenčín, Austria-Hungary (today in Slovakia)
Nationality:Hungarian
Occupation:doctor and naturalist

Karel Brančik (13 March 184218 November 1915) was a Hungarian doctor and naturalist.He practised medicine at Trenčín and was interested in entomology, malacology and botany. In 1913 he founded the museum at Trenčín. He made a large collection of Coleoptera which was acquired by the Vienna entomologist Eduard Knirsch (1869–1955) before his collection was acquired by the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

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