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Szymon Tenenbaum
Szymon Tenenbaum (31 January 1892 – 28 November 1941) was a Polish zoologist and entomologist from Warsaw. He died of starvation and exhaustion under home arrest in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German invasion of Poland. His vast collections of insects were saved during the second world war by Antonina and Jan Żabiński at the Warsaw Zoo. Life and work Tenenbaum was born in Warsaw in a Jewish family. Even as a child, he collected insect specimens, and his father brought specimens of natural history as souvenirs from trips. He was influenced by the beetle collector Ludwik Hildt. After studying at the Kreczmar High School he went to the Jagiellonian University where he studied the anatomy of the Malphigian tubules under Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer. He then became a teacher at the Jewish College in Warsaw. In 1932 he received a PhD from the University of Vilnius, studying entomology under Jan Prüffer (1890–1958). He specialized especially in the beetles, naming his first new sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szymon Tenebaum Polish Entomologist
Szymon is a Polish version of the masculine given name Simon. Academics *Szymon Askenazy – a historian and diplomat who served as the first Polish representative at the League of Nations *Szymon Datner – a Polish-Jewish historian and anti-Nazi partisan fighter Artists *Szymon Bobrowski – an actor * Szymon Buchbinder – a 19th and early 20th century Polish painter * Szymon Czechowicz – an 18th-century Polish painter *Szymon Goldberg – a Polish-American violinist and conductor * Szymon Szymonowic – a Polish Renaissance poet * Szymon Josiah Borzestowski - an Australian musician Athletes * Szymon Matuszek – a Polish footballer (midfielder) * Szymon Pawlak – a Polish footballer (defender) *Szymon Szewczyk – a Polish professional basketball player *Szymon Ziółkowski – an Olympic gold medal-winning hammer thrower Nobility *Szymon Marcin Kossakowski – an 18th-century Polish Lithuanian nobleman and a leader of the Targowica Confederation *Szymon Samuel Sanguszko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Żabiński
Jan Żabiński () (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974) and his wife Antonina Żabińska (née Erdman) (1908–1971) were a Polish couple from Warsaw, recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. Jan Żabiński was a zoologist and zootechnician by profession, a scientist, and organizer and director of the renowned Warsaw Zoo before and during World War II. He became director of the Zoo before the outbreak of war but during the occupation of Poland also held a prestigious function of the Superintendent of the city's public parks in 1939–1945. A street in Warsaw is named after him. Jan and his wife Antonina and their son Ryszard used their personal villa and the zoo itself to shelter hundreds of displaced Jews. Additionally, Jan fought during the Warsaw Uprising, was subsequently injured and became a prisoner of war. After his liberation Żabiński became a member of the State Commission for the Preservation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwik Fryderyk Hildt (1896–1961), Polish medical doctor and biologist
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* Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884–1954), Polish microbiologist
* Ludwik Krzywicki (1859–1941), Polish economist and sociologist
* Ludwik Lawiński (1887–1971), Polish film actor
* Ludwik Mlokosiewicz (1831–1909), Polish explorer, zoologist and botanist
* Ludwik Mycielski (1854–1926), Polish politician
* Ludwik Rajchman (1881–1965), Polish bacteriologist
* Ludwik Silberstein (1872–1948), Polish-American physicist that helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of ...
Ludwik () is a Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Ludwik Czyżewski, Polish WWII general * Ludwik Fleck Ludwik Fleck (11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish Jewish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf WeiglT. Tansey (2014) ''Typhus and tyranny'', ''Nature'' 511(7509), 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University ( Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution. The university has been viewed as a guardian of Polish culture, particularly for continuing operations during the partitions of Poland and the two World Wars, as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the Collegium Medicum. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields. The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offered in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer
Henryk Ferdynand Hoyer (13 July 1864 – 17 October 1947) was a Polish zoologist and professor of comparative anatomy at the Jagiellonian University from 1894-1934 serving also as its rector. He is sometimes referred to as Henryk Hoyer junior to differentiate him from his father, Henryk Frederyk Hoyer (1834-1907), who is considered the founder of histology in Poland. Hoyer was born in Warsaw to Ludwika née Werner and Henryk Frederyk, histologist and professor at the University of Warsaw. Educated at the Gymnasium in Bydgoszcz, he then studied at the University of Wrocław and at Strasbourg, receiving a doctorate from the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin in 1892. He worked as an assistant to Albert Kölliker at Würzburg and Gustav Schwalbe in Strasbourg before moving to the Jagiellonian University, Kraków in 1894. He became a full professor in 1904. He became a dean in 1909 and rector in 1929. In 1939 he was arrested during Sonderaktion Krakau and sent to Sachsenhaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Prüffer
Jan Prüffer (1890– 1969) was a Polish biologist, a taxonomic authority in entomology.Jan Prüffer Polish Internet Biographical DictionarySławomir Kalembka (ed.), "Pracownicy nauki i dydaktyki Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika 1945-2004. Materiały do biografii", Toruń, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2006, p. 561. . During the he gave lectures at the underground educational facilities. Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the |
Stanisław Michał Sumiński
Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, California * Stanislaus River, California * Stanislaus National Forest, California * Place Stanislas, a square in Nancy, France, World Heritage Site of UNESCO * Saint-Stanislas, Mauricie, Quebec, a Canadian municipality * Stanizlav, a fictional train depot in the game '' TimeSplitters: Future Perfect'' * Stanislau, German name of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Schools * St. Stanislaus High School, an institution in Bandra, Mumbai, India * St. Stanislaus High School (Detroit) * Collège Stanislas de Paris, an institution in Paris, France * California State University, Stanislaus, a public university in Turlock, CA * St Stanislaus College (Bathurst), a secondary school in Bathurst, Australia * St. Stanislaus College (Guyana), a secondary school in G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the Nazi Germany, German authorities within the new General Government territory of Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there, in an area of , with an average of 9.2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations. From the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers. In the summer of 1942, at least 254,000 ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during under the guise of "resettlement in the East" over the course of the summer. The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted the deportations. The total death toll among the prisoners of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Zookeeper's Wife (film)
''The Zookeeper's Wife'' is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman. It is based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book of the same name. The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II. It stars Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl and Michael McElhatton. The film had its world premiere on 8 March 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, the location of the story, followed by its US premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, on 12 March 2017. The film was released in the United States on 31 March 2017, by Focus Features, and by Universal Pictures International in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2017. It received mixed reviews from critics but a positive response from audiences and grossed $26 million worldwide. Plot Dr. Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of the largest in 1930s Europe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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