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Kazimierz Wodzicki (1816-1889)
Kazimierz Stanisław Michał Wodzicki (26 September 1816 – 20 October 1889) was a Polish nobleman from Galicia who served as a member of the Imperial Council from 1861 to 1863. He was also an ornithologist and wrote several books on birds. Biography Wodzicki was born in Korzkiew, the youngest son of Count Józef Wodzicki and Countess Petronella Jablonowska. He studied natural sciences in Krakow and abroad and became interested in birds. From 1861, he was a member of the Galician Regional Assembly representing landowners. The assembly chose him for the Imperial Council and served until 1863. He married Countess von dem Broele (1826-1856) in 1845 and Josepha Dzieduszycka in 1858. He wrote extensively on birds, farming, and nature in the region. He died on his estate in Olejów. His writings include: * Systematyczny spis ptaków uważanych w dawnej ziemi krakowskiej = Systematic description of the birds observed on the former territory of Kraków, printed in the "Biblioteka Wars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Wodzicki Portret
Kazimierz (; la, Casimiria; yi, קוזמיר, Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto just across the river in Podgórze, and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Krakow and an important center of cultural life of the city. The boundaries of Kazimierz are defined by an old island in the Vistula river. The northern branch of the river (''Stara Wisła'' – Old Vistula) was fille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 Births
This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. Events January–March * December 25 1815–January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow. * January 9 – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp, at Hebburn Colliery in northeast England. * January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. * February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg. * February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa ''The Barber of Seville'' premières at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. * March 1 – The Gork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the The Football League 1888–89, inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally Incorporation (business), incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornithologists
__NOTOC__ This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also :Ornithologists. A * John Abbot – US *Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US *William Louis Abbott – US * Joseph H. Acklen – US *Humayun Abdulali – India * Jon E. Ahlquist – US * Prince Akishino (皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan *Luigi d'Albertis – Italy *John Warren Aldrich – US *Boyd Alexander – England * Christopher James Alexander – England *Horace Alexander – England, US *Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – England *Salim Ali – India *Arthur Augustus Allen – US *Elsa Guerdrum Allen – US *Glover Morrill Allen – US *Joel Asaph Allen – US * Robert Porter Allen – US *György Almásy – Hungary/Austria *Bernard Altum – Germany *Dean Amadon – US *George W. Archibald – Canada/US * John Ash – England *Edwin Ashby – Australia *Henry Philemon Attwater – England/Canada/US *Yves Aubry – Canada *Jean Victoire Audouin – France *John James Audub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
