Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski (also Anton and Andrzeiovski, Andrzeiowski, Andrzeiowsky, , Anton Lukjanowitsch Andrschejowski) was a Russian-Polish botanist, zoologist and paleontologist. He also used the pseudonym Stary Detiuk, meaning "old Detiuk".

Early life and education

Andrzejowski was born the son of a bank clerk and property manager in the village of in the present-day

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. He grew up in various places in western Ukraine and studied in

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after his father's death in 1801. Andrzejowski was a student of the botanists Franz Scheidt and

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Career in botany

Andrzejowski was a teacher at the lyceum in

. After his

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-language lyceum was dissolved in 1832, he was an assistant to

and lecturer at

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beginning in 1832. He had to give up that position when the

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authorities suspected him of harboring conspirators. Beginning in 1839, he taught natural history at the lyceum in

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. After retiring as a professor, Andrzejowski moved to

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in 1852, where he led the botanical garden. His botanical specialties were cruciferous plants (

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) and the flora of Ukraine. He was also interested in zoology, geology, and paleontology. Andrzejowski described 51 fossil species from the

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. In 1825 he published a list of Ukrainian wild plants and posthumously in 1869 a flora of Ukraine and its neighboring areas. He collected in

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, and

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. Occasionally he also worked on zoology, especially reptiles and amphibians. The daisy genus '' Andrzeiowskia'' is named in his honor. He was a member of the

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and the Warsaw Natural History Society,World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences website, ''Names of botanical genera dedicated to genuine persons '', article by Iliana Alexandrova Ilieva and Iliana Ilieva, published in Volume 12(02), page 111 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjbphs.2022.12.2.0129
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. Species first described by Andrzejowski include small-flowered winter-cress (''

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'') in the

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family (

Publications

* ''Rys botaniczny krain zwiedzanych w podróżach pomiędzy Bohem a Dniestrem od Zbrucza aż do Morza Czarnego odbytych w latach 1814, 1816, 1818, 1822.'' (1823) (Scientific visits to Bohemia and the Black Sea) * ''Nazwiska roślin Grekom starożytnym znanych na język polski przetłumaczone.'' (Names of ancient plants, in Greek, translated into Polish and English) (with W. Besserem) (1827). * ''Ciąg drugi z podróży w 1823 i 1824.'' (1830) (Continuation of scientific visits to Bohemia and the Black Sea) * ''Ramoty Starego Detiuka o Wołyniu.'' (1859, 1861-1862, 1914, 1921) (Old Detiuka of Volhynia) * ''Flora Ukrainy czyli opisanie roślin dziko rosnących w Ukrainie przeddnieprowej i w sąsiednich z nią okolicach Wołynia, Podola i guberni chersońskiej.'' (1869) (Description of the flora of Ukraine Part 1 art 2 not published * ''Nauka wyrazów botanicznych dla łatwości determinowania roślin'' (1825) (Lists of Ukrainian species)

References

External links

International Plant Names IndexIPNI

species described by Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski

Wikisource publications for Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski
* Global Plants, Natural History Museu
plants.jstor.org

in the ''Large Biographical Encyclopedia'' (2009, Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrzejowski, Antoni 1780s births 1868 deaths 19th-century Polish botanists Botanists with author abbreviations Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv