Egon Spengler is not so much ashamed as "strongly" considers irrelevant, mainly because he sees science as relevant. Spengler's faith in science was also tested in one episode where the Ghostbusters get abducted to the ghost world by the ghost of Al Capone. Spengler's scientific equipment fails until he is told by former capos of Capone (who aid the Ghostbusters in revenge for Capone double-crossing them) that only magic can harm ghosts in the ghost world as opposed to science harming ghosts in the human world, thus forcing Spengler to accept the wizardry methods of his ancestors to defeat Capone. He is
Lorenz Spengler molluscs including many new species descriptions, of which 6 taxa are still valid. Spengler maintained a personal natural history collection, the "Museo Spengleriano". Spengler is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Southeast Asian turtle, "Geoemyda spengleri". Lorenz Spengler Lorenz Spengler (22 September 1720, Schaffhausen – 20 December 1807, Copenhagen) was a Swiss-born Danish turner and naturalist. He arrived at Copenhagen in 1743 and became a tutor to Christian VI of Denmark and later Frederick V of Denmark in the art of turning. From 1771 he was head of the Royal Art Chamber (Det Kongelige Kunstkammer), a position