About Karel Brančik
Lived 1842 – 1915 (aged 73). Karel Brančik was a Hungarian and Austrian physician, naturalist, lepidopterist, entomologist and botanist.
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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Who was Karel Brančik?
Slovak entomologist and doctor (1842-1915)
When was Karel Brančik born?
Karel Brančik was born on 13 March 1842 in Stará Bystrica.
When did Karel Brančik die?
Karel Brančik died on 18 November 1915 in Trenčín.
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Karel Brančik was a physician, naturalist, lepidopterist, entomologist and botanist.
What nationality was Karel Brančik?
Karel Brančik was Hungarian and Austrian.
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