Date of birth: 1811
Date of death: 1906
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Johann Dzierzon (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906) was a pioneering apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis among bees, and designed the first successful movable-frame beehive. Dzierzon came from Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia (and later Germany).

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