About Stanko Karaman
Lived 1889 – 1959 (aged 69). Stanko Karaman was a biologist, carcinologist and zoologist.
Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans.
In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - Macedonian Museum of Natural History) in Skopje and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje.
Several species are named after him, for example Delamarella karamani Petkovski, 1957 (Harpacticoida), Stygophalangium karamani Oudemans, 1933 (Arachnida), or Macedonethes stankoi I. Karaman, 2003 (Isopoda).
Other taxa named karamani are labeled after his son Gordan S. Karaman, also a carcinologist.
Publications Pisces Macedoniae, Split 1924 pp. 90 Komarci Dalmacije i njihovo suzbijanje.- Glasnik Ministarstva narodnog zdravlja, Institut za proucavanje i suzbijanje malarije Trogir, Split, 1925, pp. 1–40.
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Who was Stanko Karaman?
Yugoslav spelaeologist and biologist (1889-1959)
When was Stanko Karaman born?
Stanko Karaman was born on 8 December 1889 in Sarajevo.
When did Stanko Karaman die?
Stanko Karaman died on 17 May 1959 in Skopje.
What was Stanko Karaman's occupation?
Stanko Karaman was a biologist, carcinologist and zoologist.
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