Bolesław Kotula
Bolesław Kotula (27 October 1849 – 19 August 1898) was a Polish naturalist and teacher. He made extensive studies of the flora and fauna of the Przemyśl area and contributed especially to knowledge of the plant and mollusc distributions in the Carpathians. Life and work Kotula was born in Cieszyn, the son of Andrzej Kotula and Anna née Tetla. After graduating from secondary school in Cieszyn in 1868 he went to the University of Vienna and studied medicine before transferring to physics. In 1871 he was a student at the Jagiellonian University where he graduated the next year. He worked as an assistant to Maksymilian Nowicki. He moved to Przemyśl in 1875 as a teacher of mathematics and natural history at the junior high school. Here he worked until 1888, inculcating an interest in the natural sciences among his students. He collected plant specimens in the region and donated 4002 herbarium sheets in 1878 collected mainly from the Przemyśl area. He collaborated with Professor ...
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