Karel Škorpil
Karel Václav Škorpil (
with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria.Born in the city of
Charles University and the Technical University in Prague. In 1881, he moved to what was then Eastern Rumelia (since 1885 united with the Principality of Bulgaria) to work as a high-school teacher in the Bulgarian cities of Plovdiv (1882-1886), Sliven (1886-1888), Varna (1888-1890, 1894-1915) and Veliko Tarnovo (1890-1894). Since 1894, Karel settled permanently in the port city of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, where he founded the Varna Archeological Society in 1901 and the Varna Archaeological Museum in 1906, of which he was the director from 1915 to his death. He was also a teacher and lecturer at the Naval Academy
and the trade school.
As a young teacher, Karel Škorpil came to be interested in archeology. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he published around 150 works, whether as the sole author or in collaboration with his brother, including 30 in
Madara. He also unearthed the prehistoric stilt houses in Lake Varna, among others. A member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
and the Bulgarian Archeological Institute, he died in Varna on 9 March 1944 and was buried among the ruins of the old Bulgarian capital Pliska.
All research by the Škorpil brothers was self-funded, and all unearthed monuments have been preserved in Bulgaria. The street in Varna where their house is located, and the Black Sea village and seaside resort Shkorpilovtsi, were named after the brothers. Škorpil Glacier in Antarctica is named after Karel Škorpil.
Major works
- Monuments across Bulgaria (1888, co-author)
- Mounds (1898, co-author)
- Władysław Warneńczyk (1923, co-author)
- Aboba—Pliska (1905)
- Monuments from the capital Preslav (1930)
References
- "ШКОРПИЛ , братя: Карел Вацлав (15. VI.1859-10.III.1944) и Херменгилд (Херман) Вацлав (8.II.1858-25.VI.1923)". Българска енциклопедия А-Я (in Bulgarian). БАН, Труд, Сирма. 2002. OCLC 163361648.
- http://www.skat.bg/products.php?type=10&genre=3303- "Час по България": Пламен Павлов, гост Павел Георгиев (Карел Шкорпил - патриархът на българската археология)
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