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Maksymilian Skotnicki (1937-2007) was a regional geographer; versatile; specialized in the agriculture and land use problems and the population issues in Africa and other tropical countries; engaged in the problems of local development. He was bound to the University of Warsaw through his w hole professional life but he also lectured at several French universities. He served the function of an Associate...
Stanisław Lencewicz was born on 19 April 1889, in Warsaw. After finishing a secondary school he worked as a teacher. In 1913- 1916 he studied in Neuchâtel under the guidance of professor E. Argand obtaining the title of a doctor in exact sciences. His habilitation took place in 1919 in Lviv under the tutorship of professor E. Romer. In 1922 he obtained the associated professorship and in 1931 the...
Urszula Soczyńska, born Czaplińska, graduated in water building engineering at the Warsaw Technical University in 1957. In 1956 she began didactic course on hydraulics and fluid mechanics at the Warsaw Technical University and then in 1960 she moved to the National Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology where she organized the Laboratory of Hydrologic Prognostic Methodology. During 50 years of scientific...
Wincenty Okołowicz was born on 26 July 1906. He made a truly remarkable scientific and teaching career, including the leadership of the Department of Climatology at the University of Warsaw. Professor Wincenty Okołowicz: published altogether 118 papers, among which, as perhaps the most important let us mention the ones devoted to (positions 1 through 9 – in Polish, 10 - in English): 1. Soil temperatures...
Zofia Kaczorowska was born on 11 September 1902 in Warsaw. She finished secondary school in 1921. Then, in 1924 she started studying at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Warsaw. At the same time she worked at the State Meteorological Institute. In 1928 she was granted a scholarship from the Institute, with the obligation of specialising in the domain of meteorology...
Stanisław Marian Leszczycki was born on 8 May 1907, in Mielec. In 1926-1930 he studied geography at the Jagiellonian University under the guidance of professors L. Sawicki and J. Smoleński. In March 1933 he was promoted for a doctor on the basis of his dissertation Geographical research on the settlement in the Insular Beskids. In 1928- 1939 he held the post of an assistant and a senior assistant...
Lech Ratajski was born on 26 April 1921, in Rawa Mazowiecka, in a teachers' family. In 1939 he obtained the school-leaving certificate in Łomża. During the II World War he worked as a teacher and a clerk. He was also a member of the Home Army (AK) and he took part in the sabotage actions for which in 1949 he was honoured with the Cross of Valour. After the war he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts...
Bogodar Winid was born in Brzeziny on 25 May 1922. In 1945-1948 he studied geography at the Jagiellonian University and economy at the Academy of Commerce in Cracow. His professional activity had begun in 1946 at the Jagiellonian University but since 1948 he worked at the Warsaw University. He was appointed a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences (1962-1964) and a Deputy Dean of...
Bogdan Zaborski was born on 5 April 1901, in Warsaw. In 1919- 1924 he studied geography at the University of Warsaw under Professor Stanisław Lencewicz. In 1925 he received the degree of a Philosophy Doctor, based on his dissertation entitled On the forms of rural settlements in Poland and their distribution (in Polish). His book was published in Germany in 1930. Bogdan Zaborski began to work as assistant...
Professor Bolesław Dumanowski - a geomorphologist and a regional geographer was born on 24 March 1927 in Podolia. In 1952 he obtained the master's degree in geomorphology at the Wrocław University where then he started scientific research and received the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy in 1958 and completed his habilitation procedure in 1964. In 1965 Bolesław Dumanowski commenced his work at the...
Professor Jerzy Kondracki Pb.D. (1908- 1998) was born in Warsaw. He attended to the Władysław IV secondary school and in 1926-1931 he studied geography at the University of Warsaw. After graduation he worked in the education system and in 1933 he took a post at the Department of Geography. In 1938 he was promoted a doctor on the basis of his dissertation „Studia nad morfologią i hydrografią Pojezierza...
Marek Prószyński was born on 27 April 1906, in Warsaw, a son of the didactic activist, writer, and publisher Konrad Prószyński (alias Kazimierz Promyk). In 1932 he graduated of the University of Warsaw with a degree in geography and in 1934 he was promoted a doctor. In the latter part of his studies and in the following years he participated in the geological research of the Stanisław Lencewicz's...
The first geographic unit at the University of Warsaw was the Department of Geography, founded on April 1, 1918, the second was the Department of Human Geography created in 1938. The functioning of the units was stopped in 1939 by the outbreak of the II World War and the German occupation. The Department of Geography was reactivated in 1945 and the Department of Human Geography in 1947. Bath departments...
Professor Stanisław Pietkiewicz Ph.D was born on 28 July 1894 in Cybulów, near Human in Ukraine. He studied at the Technical University in Sankt Petersburg and Kiev. With the outbreak of the I World War he was called up to the army and trained for an instructor of topography. After the war he took a post at the Military Institute of Geography and in 1926 at its Cartography Section. Simultaneously...
Wiktor Grygorenko was born on March 6, 1927. He passed his final high school exam in Katowice in 1949 and after a military training he began his studies at the Military School of Topographers. Then he studied geodesy at the Military Engineering Academy in Moscow. Having returned to Warsaw in 1959, he worked in the Military Cartographic Works and later in the Topographic Board of the General Staff...
Stefan Zbigniew Różycki, geologist, geographer, and traveller, was born on 8 January 1906, in Konstantynówka, near Donetsk. He spent his childhood and early adolescence in Ukraine and later he continued education in gymnasiums in Warsaw and in Częstochowa. After obtaining his school-leaving certificate in 1925 he began geologic and geographic studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University...
Cecylia Radłowska was born on 28 June 1913, in Łódź. She received the school-leaving certificate in 1931 and she began the geographic studies at the University of Warsaw which she finally finished at the Jagiellonian University in 1937. Her master's thesis was entitled Evolution in afforestation and changes in arable lands in Kuyavia and the Greater Poland from the end of the 18th century till the...
Józef Barbag was born on 9 April 1903, in Podolia. In 1922-1927 he studied geography at the John Casimir University in Lviv. After graduation he taught at several secondary schools and in 1953 took a post at the Institute of Geography of the University of Warsaw where in 1968 he obtained professorship. His specialties were the regional and the political geography and in these fields he published numerous...
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