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Antoni Waga
Antoni Stanisław Florian Waga (8 May 1799 – 23 November 1890) was a Polish zoologist, traveller, writer, literary critic and Piarist. He was also a collector of rare books on natural history. Along with Taczanowski and under the patronage of Konstanty Branicki, they established the zoological cabinet at the University of Warsaw. Life and work Waga was born in Grabów near Kolno to Bernard and Agata née Gutowska. The botanist Jakub Ignacy Waga was his brother. He graduated from a Warsaw school run by Piarists in 1817 and then went to the Warsaw Lyceum. From 1818 he taught Polish, natural history and other subjects at Piarist schools. In 1820 he received a scholarship for his dissertation which supported a visit to the University of Berlin, Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Königsberg. He took a special interest in ornithology. He then returned to study at the University of Warsaw from 1823 and became a professor at the Warsaw Lyceum in 1826. From 1832 he was at the Warsaw Gymnas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Antoni is a Catalan language, Catalan, Polish language, Polish, and Slovene language, Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton (given name), Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the female names Antonia (name), Antonia and Antonina (name), Antonina. As a Slovene name it is a variant of the male names Anton (given name), Anton, Antonij and Antonijo and the female name Antonija. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. It may refer to: Given name * Antoni Brzeżańczyk, Polish football player and manager * Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect * Antoni Gutiérrez Díaz (1929–2006), Catalan physician and politician * Antoni Kenar, Polish sculptor * Antoni Lima, Catalan footballer * Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician * Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop * Antoni Niemczak, Polish long-distance runner * Józef Antoni Poniatowski, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Naturalists
Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwriters * Kevin Polish, an American Paralympian archer Polish may refer to: * Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action ** French polishing, polishing wood to a high gloss finish * Nail polish * Shoe polish * Polish (screenwriting), improving a script in smaller ways than in a rewrite See also * * * Polishchuk (surname) * Polonaise (other) A polonaise ()) is a stately dance of Polish origin or a piece of music for this dance. Polonaise may also refer to: * Polonaises (Chopin), compositions by Frédéric Chopin ** Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 (, ''Heroic Polonaise''; ) * Polon ... {{Disambiguation, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa. * January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. * January 11 – 1890 British Ultimatum: The United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its forces from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (most of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia). * January 15 – Ballet '' The Sleeping Beauty'', with music by Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. * January 25 ** The United Mine Workers of America is founded. ** American journalist Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. February * February 5 – The worldwide insurance and financial service brand Allianz is founded in Berlin, Germany. * February 18 – The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. * February 24 – Chicago is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 Births
Events January–March * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * January 21 – The Parthenopean Republic is established in Naples by French General Jean Étienne Championnet; King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies flees. * January 27 – French Revolutionary Wars: Macau Incident – French and Spanish warships encounter a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago of China inconclusively. * February 9 – Quasi-War: In the single-ship action of USS ''Constellation'' vs ''L'Insurgente'' in the Caribbean, the American ship is the victor. * February 28 – French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Sybille'' defeats the French frigate '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstanty Tyzenhauz
Count Konstanty Tyzenhauz (; 3 June 1786 – 16 March 1853) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, naturalist, artist, and patron of ornithology in Poland and Lithuania. He made a large collection of eggs and bird skins at his estate in Postawy (now in Belarus). Biography Tyzenhaus was born in Żołudek near Grodno to Count Ignacy and Maria Przezdziecka. After education at the University of Vilnius, he took part in the Napoleonic Wars (1812-14). It was shortly after the war that he became familiar with taxidermic techniques at the Paris Museum of Natural History. French was a second language in the Polish-Lithuanian artistocracy and his correspondents included Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799-1874). He was awarded a Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor on August 10, 1813, and he continued to live in Clermont not returning to Lithuania until the Tsar declared an amnesty for former soldiers of the Grand Army. He then took a keen interest in the birds of the Vilnius region a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alojzy Rafał Estreicher
Alojzy Rafał Estreicher or Alois Raphael Estreicher (21 June 1786 – 1 August 1852) was a Polish physician and naturalist who contributed to botany and entomology. He served as a professor of natural history at the Jagiellonian University, University of Krakow. A species of beetle that he discovered was named after him as ''Carabus estreicheri''. Life and work Estreicher was born in Kraków, Krakow where his father Dominik Franciszek Paulo Oesterreicher (1750–1809) was an art professor and amateur entomologist. His mother was Rozalia née Prakesch (1761–1807). He Polonized the family name of Oesterreicher to Estreicher. He studied medicine at the University of Krakow from 1802 and received a surgery degree in 1805. He then taught veterinary medicine for a while. He studied museum practices at the University of Vienna. In 1807 he received a doctorate in medicine and a doctor of philosophy in 1811. From 1809 he was in charge of the botanical garden of Krakow where he reorgan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Krzysztof Kluk
Jan Krzysztof Kluk (September 13, 1739 – July 2, 1796) was a Polish naturalist agronomist and entomologist. He was the son of Jan Krzysztof Adrian and Marianna Elżbieta. His father, an impoverished nobleman, was a building contractor and architect, mainly of churches. Jan Krzysztof Kluk went to school in Warsaw, later in Drohiczyn, and finally in the Piarists school in Łuków. In 1763 he finished the Missionary seminary in the Holy Cross Church, Warsaw. From 1763–67 he was a domestic chaplain attached to the noble household of Tomasz Ossoliński, the starosta of Nur. From 1767–70 he was vicar of the parish of Winna-Poświętna. He later became vicar of the parish of Ciechanowiec, a position he kept until his death. He was a man with universal interests, but known mostly as a naturalist studying mainly the regions of Podlaskie and Masovia. He was a very able draftsman and engraver, which permitted him to illustrate his own later works. Princess Anna Jabło ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Perthées
Karol Perthées or Karol Herman de Perthées (14 January 1740 – 21 November 1815 / 2 December 1815) was a Polish-Lithuanian army engineer who served as royal cartographer under the patronage of Stanisław August Poniatowski. He worked on maps of the region, collected insects, and lectured on cartography for the Russian army in Vilnius. His most famous map, ''Polonia secundum legitimas proiectionis stereographicae regulas,'' was destroyed in 1944 by a fire but reconstructions exist. Life and work Perthées was born in Dresden in a family of French Huguenots, the illegitimate son of Herman Karl von Keyserling. Although he was given the name Herman as well as Karol, he used only Karol. He studied at military school in Berlin and trained in military engineering. In 1764 he was appointed court geographer and map-maker to Stanisław August Poniatowski, colonel of the Polish royal army. In 1798 he lectured on cartography for the Russian army in Vilnius. He produced a series of 1: 225, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salamandra Caucasica
The Caucasian salamander (''Mertensiella caucasica'') is a species of stream-dwelling salamander in the family Salamandridae. This is a salamander of medium size, with a thin, elongated body. It is a relict species, endemic to the south-western Caucasus, in Georgia and Turkey. The subspecies ''M. c. janashvilii'' is found at Mt. Mtirala near Batumi and probably along the Black Sea coast. Habitat, behavior and diet The Caucasian salamander lives along the banks of mountain brooks and small rivers with fast currents, both in the forest belt and above timberline, up to about 2400 m above sea level. The species is secretive and strictly nocturnal, and mates on land. The male uses the protuberance on the upper side of the tail for opening the female's cloaca and passes the spermatophore directly to the female. Their diets consist of invertebrates living in soil or shallow water; an important part of the diet is amphipods. Reproduction Sexual dimorphism is expressed by presence of a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piarists
The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools (), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the Catholic Church founded in 1617 by Spanish priest Joseph Calasanz. It is the oldest religious order dedicated to education, and the main occupation of the Piarist fathers is teaching children and youth, the primary goal being to provide free education for poor children. The Piarist practice was to become a model for numerous later Catholic societies devoted to teaching, while some state-supported public school systems in Europe also followed their example. The Piarists have had a considerable success in the education of physically or mentally disabled persons. Notable individuals who have taught at Piarist schools include Pope Pius IX, Goya, Schubert, Gregor Mendel, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Victor Hugo. History Joseph Calasanz Joseph Calasanz, a native of Peralta de la Sal in the Spanish province of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
