Tybory-Kamianka
Tybory-Kamianka is a village in the administrative district of the Gmina Wysokie Mazowieckie, within Wysokie Mazowieckie County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
The village has a population of 120.
Polish historian and archaeolo ...
– 16 August 1910 in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society (
PTTK
''Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze'', PTTK (Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society) is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.
The PTTK is one of the oldest tourist societies in Europe. ...
).Zygmunt Gloger - Starożytnik z Jeżewa. Internet Archive.
Life
Under the professional influence of historians and geographers
Julian Bartoszewicz
Julian Bartoszewicz (1821–1870) was a Polish historian.
Bartoszewicz wrote a biography on Nicolaus Copernicus, which was published together with the ''Collected Works'' of Copernicus in 1854 in Warsaw. He became internationally known for the ...
Wincenty Pol
Wincenty Pol (20 April 1807 – 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer.
Life
Pol was born in Lublin (then in Galicia), to Franz Pohl (or Poll), a German in the Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a Fr ...
and
Oskar Kolberg
Henryk Oskar Kolberg (22 February 1814 – 3 June 1890) was a Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer active during the foreign Partitions of Poland.foreign Partitions, and corresponded with many European scholars.
Founder of ''
Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze
''Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze'', PTTK (Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society) is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.
The PTTK is one of the oldest tourist societies in Europe. ...
'' (the Sightseeing Society, precursor of modern
PTTK
''Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze'', PTTK (Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society) is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.
The PTTK is one of the oldest tourist societies in Europe. ...
), in his will Gloger gave his impressive collection to that organization as well as to the ''Towarzystwo Ethnograficzne'' (the Ethnographic Society), ''Towarzystwo Bibliotek Publicznych w Warszawie'' (Public Libraries Society) and Museum of Industry and Agriculture.
His life's work was the ''Encyklopedia staropolska ilustrowana'' (1900-1903), still considered a useful and important book about culture of
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...
. His other works include ''Obchody weselne'' (1869), ''Pieśni ludu'' (1892), ''Księga rzeczy polskich'' (1896), ''Rok polski w życiu, tradycji i pieśni'' (1900).Dr Marek Adamiec (2003), Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski by Zygmunt Gloger. ' Uniwersytet Gdański, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Gdańsk.
List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak ...