Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski (also Anton and Andrzeiovski, Andrzeiowski, Andrzeiowsky, russian: Антон Лукьянович Андржейовский, Anton Lukjanowitsch Andrschejowski) was a Russian-Polish botanist, zoologist and paleontologist. He also used the pseudonym Stary Detiuk, meaning "old Detiuk".

Early life and education

Andrzejowski was born the son of a bank clerk and property manager in the village of in the present-day

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. He grew up in various places in western Ukraine and studied in

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after his father's death in 1801. Andrzejowski was a student of the botanists Franz Scheidt and

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 – 11 October 1842), known in Russia as Vilibald Gotlibovich Besser (russian: Вилибальд Готлибович Бессер) was an Austrian-born botanist active in the Russian Empire ...

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Career in botany

Andrzejowski was a teacher at the lyceum in

. After his

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-language lyceum was dissolved in 1832, he was an assistant to

and lecturer at

Kiev University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

beginning in 1832. He had to give up that position when the

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authorities suspected him of harboring conspirators. Beginning in 1839, he taught natural history at the lyceum in

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. After retiring as a professor, Andrzejowski moved to

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in 1852, where he led the botanical garden. His botanical specialties were cruciferous plants (

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The le ...

) and the flora of Ukraine. He was also interested in zoology, geology, and paleontology. Andrzejowski described 51 fossil species from the

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. In 1825 he published a list of Ukrainian wild plants and posthumously in 1869 a flora of Ukraine and its neighboring areas. He collected in

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, and

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. Occasionally he also worked on zoology, especially reptiles and amphibians. The daisy genus Andrzeiowskia is named in his honor. He was a member of the

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and the Warsaw Natural History Society and correspondent at the

University of Kiev Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. Species first described by Andrzejowski include small-flowered winter-cress (''

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'') in the

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family (

Publications

* ''Rys botaniczny krain zwiedzanych w podróżach pomiędzy Bohem a Dniestrem od Zbrucza aż do Morza Czarnego odbytych w latach 1814, 1816, 1818, 1822.'' (1823) (Scientific visits to Bohemia and the Black Sea) * ''Nazwiska roślin Grekom starożytnym znanych na język polski przetłumaczone.'' (Names of ancient plants, in Greek, translated into Polish and English) (with W. Besserem) (1827). * ''Ciąg drugi z podróży w 1823 i 1824.'' (1830) (Continuation of scientific visits to Bohemia and the Black Sea) * ''Ramoty Starego Detiuka o Wołyniu.'' (1859, 1861-1862, 1914, 1921) (Old Detiuka of Volhynia) * ''Flora Ukrainy czyli opisanie roślin dziko rosnących w Ukrainie przeddnieprowej i w sąsiednich z nią okolicach Wołynia, Podola i guberni chersońskiej.'' (1869) (Description of the flora of Ukraine Part 1 art 2 not published * ''Nauka wyrazów botanicznych dla łatwości determinowania roślin'' (1825) (Lists of Ukrainian species)

References

External links

International Plant Names IndexIPNI

species described by Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski

Wikisource publications for Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski
* Global Plants, Natural History Museu
plants.jstor.org

in the ''Large Biographical Encyclopedia'' (2009, Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrzejowski, Antoni 1780s births 1868 deaths 19th-century Polish botanists Botanists with author abbreviations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv faculty