Hugo Zapałowicz (15 November 1852, in

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– 20 November 1917, in Perovsk ow Kyzylorda">Kyzylorda.html" ;"title="ow Kyzylorda">ow Kyzylorda/nowiki>, Kazakhstan) was a botanist, natural scientist, traveller, and military lawyer. Zapałowicz was a pioneer researcher of flora and geological structure of the

Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...

. He was also a geological, geographical, and flora researcher of

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and author of works about flora of Babia Góra-Babia Hora, Maramureş Mountains,

Pokuttya Pokuttia, also known as Pokuttya or Pokutia, (; ; ) is an historical area of East-Central Europe, situated between the Dniester and Cheremosh rivers and Carpathian Mountains, in the southwestern part of modern Ukraine. Although the historic hear ...

. In 1894 he became a member of the

Academy of Learning Academy of Learning (; AU) was a primary Polish scientific institution during the annexation of Poland established in 1871. It was founded in Kraków as a continuation of the ''Kraków Scientific Society'' (''Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie''). Th ...

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1852 births 1917 deaths Slovenian botanists Botanists active in South America Naturalists from Austria-Hungary Natural scientists 19th-century naturalists Scientists from Ljubljana {{Slovenia-scientist-stub