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Józef Warszewicz
Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz ( lt, 'Juozapas Varševičius') (8(?) September 1812, Vilnius – 29 December 1866, Cracow) was a Polish people, Polish botanist, plant and animal collector, and biologist. Life Born into an impoverished Polish family of lower nobility, he grew up in Vilnius, Lithuania, and became a botanist at the botanical garden of the Vilnius University. While at the university, he joined the November Uprising which was quickly and brutally suppressed, whereupon, with the remnants of the Polish army, he fled to Germany. In the years 1840-1844 he worked as assistant gardener in the Botanical Garden at Berlin. In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Louis van Houtte, Louis Benoît Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens. Warszewicz was especially interested i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Warszewicz (Ogrod Botaniczny Krakow)
Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz ( lt, Juozapas Varševičius) ( September 1812 – 29 December 1866) was a Polish people, Polish botanist, biologist and plant and animal collector. Life Warszewicz was born on ( September 1812 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Born into an impoverished Polish family of lower nobility, he grew up in Vilnius, and became a botanist at the botanical garden of the Vilnius University. While at the university, he joined the November Uprising which was quickly and brutally suppressed, whereupon, with the remnants of the Polish army, he fled to Germany. In the years 1840-1844 he worked as assistant gardener in the Botanical Garden at Berlin. In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Louis van Houtte, Louis Benoît Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens. Warszewicz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |