Wiktor Ormicki

Wiktor Ormicki (born ''Wiktor Rudolf Nusbaum'', 1898–1941) was a Polish geographer and cartographer, and a university professor. He was of Jewish descent. A specialist in

economical geography An economic system, or economic order, is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society or a given geographic area. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies, entities ...

and

demography Demography () is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as ed ...

, he served at various posts in the Jagiellonian University,

Wolna Wszechnica Free Polish University ( pl, Wolna Wszechnica Polska), founded in 1918 in Warsaw, was a private high school with different departments: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities, political sciences and social pedagogy Social pedagogy describes ...

, Higher Trade School of Kraków and Lwów University. Arrested by the Germans during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

in Sonderaktion Krakau, he was murdered in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. 1898 births 1941 deaths Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Academic staff of Jagiellonian University Academic staff of the University of Lviv People who died in Mauthausen concentration camp Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish geographers Polish people executed in Nazi concentration camps Executed people from Lesser Poland Voivodeship Jewish scientists 20th-century geographers {{Poland-bio-stub