Josef Maria Schedel

Josef Maria Schedel (10 January 1856 – 7 April 1943) was a German apothecary, naturalist and collector.

He worked in Japan and China from where he collected natural history specimens particularly of molluscs and art for German collectors.

In 1880 he went to study natural sciences in Munich and in the next year he went to the University of Kiel and became a chemical assistant to August Friedrich Karl Himly.

[2][3][4] Schedel was a friend of Magnus Hirschfeld, who founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (WHC) in 1897.

[5] In 1925 he was awarded the "Bene merenti" medal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for his Chinese antiquities donated to the museum in Munich.