Henryk Daniel Robert Dołęga Dziedzicki (1847,

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- 1921, Warsaw) was a Polish

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He studied medicine at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. In the years 1872-1873, he took part in an expedition to

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, financed and organized by

Aleksander Branicki Aleksander Branicki (1821-1877) was a Polish traveller, collector, and naturalist. He was a member of the Polish aristocratic family: House of Branicki (Korczak). He was an estate holder in Sucha. Branicki was born in Byla Tserkva (now in Ukrai ...

. On 28 September 1874 he received the title of doctor of Medicine of the University of Warsaw. Dziedzicki was an active member of the scientific society of Warsaw and a Member of Entomological Associations in Saint Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna. His sister married the entomologist

Johann Andreas Schnabl Johann Andreas Schnabl (born Jan Sznabla, 1838 – 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and was an entomologist specializing in Diptera. His family moved from Dresden to Warsaw in the late 18th century, hence the German heritage. Warsaw wa ...

. He especially revised the family

Mycetophilidae The Mycetophilidae are a family of small flies, forming the bulk of those species known as fungus gnats. About 3000 described species are placed in 150 genera, but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher. They are generally found ...

, where detailed differences in the construction of the genitalia were used for identification. He described about 120 new species from the family Mycetophilidae and two new genera ''

Heteropygium ''Palaeodocosia'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Mycetophilidae The Mycetophilidae are a family of small flies, forming the bulk of those species known as fungus gnats. About 3000 described species are placed in 150 genera, but t ...

'' and ''

Allophallus ''Epicypta'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Mycetophilidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world i ...

''. Taxa named to honour him are *''Helophilus henricii'' Schnabl, 1880, *''Phronia dziedzickii'' Lundstrom, 1906 *''Sciophila dziedzickii''

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, 1925 *''Paraneurotelia dziedzickii'' Landrock, 1911

Works

*Przyczynek do fauny owadów dwuskrzydłych ... (1884-1889) *Die Anthomyiden (1909) *Zur Monographie der Gattung ''Rymosia'' (1909) *Atlas organów rozrodczych (hypopygium) typów Winnertza i gatunków znajdujących się w jego zbiorze mycetophylidów (1915) *Przegląd gatunków europejskich rodzaju Antella Winnertz oraz opis dwu nowych rodzajów: Heteropygium i ''Allophallus'' (1923)

References

Historia Polski
Polish entomologists Dipterists 1921 deaths 1847 births {{poland-scientist-stub