Andrzej Stanisław Julian Dunajewski (in German literature known as Andreas Dunajewski) (August 3, 1908,

Wola Justowska Wola Justowska is an area belonging to Zwierzyniec District Nº. VII of Kraków, Poland. It was previously a village known as Wola Chełmska until the 16th century. It became part of metropolitan Kraków in 1941. See also * Districts of Kraków ...

– August 1944 ) was a Polish zoologist and ornithologist.

Life and career

Born in Wola Justowska to Stanisław Dunajewski and Zofia from Madeyski, Andreas went to school in Vienna where his father worked before moving to Poland, graduated from the Junior High School and went on to study in Kraków at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University. His master's thesis work was conducted under the guidance of Prof.

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and was on lymphatic vessels. One of his findings was the suggestion that the caudal heart of fish pumped lymph, a theory that is no longer considered valid. He worked in the national zoological museum as an assistant to

Janusz Domaniewski Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954) was a Polish ornithologist. Notable published works include the following: * 1918: Die Stellung des ''Urocynchramus pylzowi'' Przev. in der Systematik. ''J. Ornithol.'' 66(4): 421–424. (first appraisal of ...

from 1933 to 1939 and worked briefly in Berlin with Prof.

Erwin Stresemann Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most compr ...

. He received a doctorate from the University of Warsaw but joined the resistance during the war and fought in the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

and died, possibly in a chemical attack, along with his wife and daughter in the

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. His work was mainly on bird taxonomy and on bird research in

Wołyń Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The ...

and Czarnohora, and near

Włoszczowa Włoszczowa is a town in southern Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about west of Kielce. It is the capital of Włoszczowa County. Population is 10,756 (2004). Włoszczowa lies in historic Lesser Poland, and from its foundation until 1795 ...

. * Dunajewski, A. (1948)
New races of the Brown Owl, Hedge-Sparrow and a new species of Attila; also a new genus of Cotingidae.
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 68:130-132. (Posthumously published where the genus ''Akletos'' is established) * * Dunajewski, A. (1936
Materialien zur Verbreitung des Fishreihers (Ardea cinerea cinerea Linn.) in Polen
Acta Ornithologica Musei Zoologici Polonici 1(15):1-38. * Dunajewski, A. (1936
Materialien zum Vorkomen des Schwarzstorches (Ciconia nigra Linn.) in Polen
Acta Ornithologica Musei Zoologici Polonici 2(1):1-25. * Dunajewski, A. (1934
Die einheimischen Formen der Familie Turdidae.
Acta Ornithologica Musei Zoologici Polonici 1(9):275-298. * Dunajewski, A. (1931
Verzeichnis der im Quellengebeit der Flusse Nida und Pilica (Kreis Wloszczowa) beohachteten Vogel
Fragmenta Faunistica Musei Zoologici Polonici 1(14):372-386. * Dunajewski, A. (1930) Die Lymphgefüsse im Rumpfe des Aales (Anguilla Anguilla L.). Bull. int Acad. pol. Sci. Lett. Ser. B. II. pp. 467–478.

References

External links

Polish database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunajewski, Andrzej Jagiellonian University alumni Polish ornithologists 20th-century Polish zoologists 1908 births 1944 deaths Warsaw Uprising insurgents Polish civilians killed in World War II Scientists from Kraków