Stanisław Chełchowski
Stanisław Chełchowski (February 27, 1866, in Chojnowo, Przasnysz County, Chojnowo near Przasnysz – March 23, 1907, in Ciechanów) was a Polish naturalist (botanist and mycologist), ethnographer and activist (social, educational and political). Founder and activist of various educational and agricultural organizations, author of many works from areas of mycology, agriculture and ethnography. Biography Stanisław Chełchowski was born on February 26, 1866, in Chojnowo, Przasnysz County, Chojnowo near Przasnysz into a szlachta, Polish nobility family. He studied in Mława and Warsaw; in his schools he was a member of various secret Polish educational societies, and headed a secret library of Polish literature (prohibited by the partitions of Poland, partitioners). Since he was 14 years old, he started writing, and his description of his home villages was published in ''Dictionary of Polish Geography'', a magazine published by Polish geographer, Filip Sulimierski. In 1887 he gradu ...
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