Curt Schrottky

Schrottky was born in Petroko (now Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland) and was educated in Berlin and Breslau.

In 1901, a manuscript on the Brazilian bees with 62 new taxa was prepared and he began to also collaborate with Hermann Friedrich Albrecht von Ihering (1850–1930) who hired him as a janitor at the Museu Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.

He planned on taking his girlfriend Francisca Schummacker but since he had not asked her mother for permission, he was arrested on charges of kidnapping.

He was relieved from the museum and he did not return to Brazil but moved to Buenos Aires where he worked on another manuscript on Hymenoptera around 1902.

From 1920 he edited a German language newspaper Wochenblatt für den Alto Parana for settlers in the region.