Oscar Theodor Baron

Baron was born in Rzepcze where his father was an elementary school teacher.

According to letters that he wrote to Henry Edwards, he was at Navarro in 1876 and in 1879 he moved to Mendocino.

During his travels, he collected insects, sending specimens to Edwards, James Spencer Bailey (1830–1883), Edward Louis Graef (1842–1922), Ferdinand Heinrich Hermann Strecker (1836–1901), Albert Koebele and Berthold Neumoegen (1845–1895).

[1] He also visited Chimborazo before returning to work in California and making another trip to Germany in 1893.

Osbert Salvin named Metallura baroni and the genus Baronia in 1893[2] in his honour.