Siołkowice (german: Schalkowitz or ''Schalkendorf'') is the name of two villages in
Poland
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, in the
Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship, or Opole Province ( pl, województwo opolskie ), is the smallest and least populated voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Upper S ...
, close to the village of
Popielów. One is named
Stare ("Old") Siołkowice, the other being
Nowe ("New") Siołkowice. The village is known as the birthplace of
Jakub Kania, a folk poet, and
Edmund Saporski-Woś, the pioneer of Polish settlement in
Brazil
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. For several years
Jan Dzierżon
Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon or Dzierżoń , also John Dzierzon (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906), was a Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees.
Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia. Trained i ...
served in the parish in the village (Stare Siołkowice).
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