About George Paul Engelhardt
Lived 1871 – 1942 (aged 70–71). George Paul Engelhardt was an American lepidopterist and entomologist.
George Paul Engelhardt (23 November 1870 – 23 May 1942) was a German-American entomologist who was curator of the Department of Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum from 1920–30.
Engelhardt was born in 1870 in Hanover (then the Kingdom of Prussia), the son of Heinrich Engelhardt and Berta Heine. He was educated in Hanover and came to the United States as an emigrant in 1889, and became a citizen in 1897.
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United States entomologist (1870-1942)
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George Paul Engelhardt was born in 1871 in Germany.
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George Paul Engelhardt was a lepidopterist and entomologist.
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