Leo Andrejewitsch Sheljuzhko
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Leo Sheljuzhko
Лев Шелюжко
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26 September 1890 Kyiv, Russian Empire |
| Died | 22 September 1969 (aged 78) Munich, Germany |
| Residence | USSR, Germany |
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| Fields | Entomology |
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Leo Andreyevich Sheljuzhko (Ukrainian: Лев Андрійович Шелюжко, German: Leo Andrejewitsch Sheljuzhko; 14 September 1890, Kiev – 22 August 1969, Munich) was a Ukrainian-German entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera. He wrote numerous scientific papers and books on the butterflies and moths of Central Asia, Ukraine, Far East, Caucasus in Russian, Ukrainian, German, and English, and described many new taxa.
He was born in 1890, the son of Andrei Ivanovich Shelyuzhko, a wealthy Ukrainian landowner. He studied at Kyiv University, and after completing his studies in 1912, he opened a business where he sold exotic plants and animals, the largest in the Russian Empire. He invested the profits in buying specimens of Lepidoptera from collectors and organizing expeditions, mostly to Central Asia and Caucasus. From 1918, he worked as a curator at the Shcherbak Zoology Museum of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1933-1941, he was a curator at Zoology Museum in Kiev University where he was installing his own Rhopalocera collection.
When the city was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941 Shelyuzhko remained under the German occupation, as his collection was left in Kyiv by University authorities as not valuable. As the Red Army approached Kiev in 1943, he was forced to flee to Germany with his butterfly specimens. Rail cars with the collection were lost in Eastern Prussia, while Shelyuzhko got to Munich where he remained for the rest of his life, eventually taking West German citizenship. From 1945 to his death in 1969, he was a researcher at the Bavarian State Zoological Collections in Munich.
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