Constantin N. Hurmuzachi

Born in Cernăuți to Natalia and Nicolae Hurmuzachi, he joined the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna while still a schoolboy.

He divided his estate at Ropcea among the peasants and dedicated himself to studying the flora and fauna of northern Romania.

Over fifty years of intense research led Hurmuzachi to publish over ninety studies in German, French, and Romanian, mainly of Lepidoptera.

In 1897, he published the first biogeographical map in Romanian, showing the flora, fauna and climate of Bukovina.

In 1931, he was named a professor at the science faculty of the University of Cernăuți, where he held Romania's first university-level course on biogeography.