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Antoni Jakubski
Antoni Władysław Jakubski (; 1885–1962) was a Polish people, Polish zoology, zoologist and Exploration, explorer. Jakubski was born in Lviv, Lemberg (Lwów), Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) on 28 March 1885. He studied zoology from Prof. Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz at the Lviv University, Lwów University where he received a habilitation in 1917. In 1909-1910, he traveled to East Africa, becoming, on 13 March 1910, the first Pole to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He crossed Tanzania Mainland, Tanganyika on foot, traveling from the Indian Ocean to the lakes Lake Malawi, Nyasa and Lake Rukwa, Rukwa in order to study their fauna. During the First World War, Jakubski fought in the Polish Legions in World War I, Polish Legions. For his military service, he was awarded with a fifth class Virtuti Militari order and a Krzyż Walecznych, Cross of the Valiant. From 1919 to 1939, he worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
