Baron Edgar von Harold (30 May 1830 – 1 August 1886)[1] was an influential Scarabaeidae expert and entomologist who was active in the 19th century.
[2] Edgar von Harold was born in Munich to a German family with Irish origins.
[2] In 1848 Harold joined the Royal Guard of the King of Bavaria where he would serve for twenty years.
At the end of his military career, Harold was sent on a trip to the coast of Spain and Morocco, to study the local insect fauna.
[1] One of the major contributions by Harold to the field is said to be the Catalogus Coleopterorum,[3] which he co-authored with his friend Max Gemminger.