Bogumił Pawłowski (born 1898, died 1971) was a Polish botanist, a member of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

, professor at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

, and director of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

. His interests included plant

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floristics Floristics is the study of plants of geographical regions. It is a branch of phytogeography, which technically makes it a branch of botany, geography, and a subbranch of biogeography. Harvard University has a history of research with early contr ...

phytogeography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution ...

, and

phytosociology Phytosociology, also known as phytocoenology or simply plant sociology, is the study of groups of species of plant that are usually found together. Phytosociology aims to Empirical evidence, empirically describe the vegetative environment of a giv ...

. He was the author or co-author of over 100 papers in the field of botany, such as '' Flora Polska'' (with

Władysław Szafer Prof Władysław Szafer PAS HFRSE (July 23, 1886 – November 16, 1970) was a Polish botanist, palaeobotanist, quaternary geologist and professor of botany at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was a world pioneer in nature conservation ...

and Stanisław Kulczyński) describing Polish vegetation. He was also the regional adviser for Poland on the

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project. With

he edited and distributed the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

''Rośliny Polskie wydawnictwa rozpoczętego przez M. Raciborskiego Seria II. Plantae Poloniae exsiccatae ab Instituto et Horto Botanico Universitatis Jagellonicae edita'' (1930-1939). The following series ''Rośliny Polskie. Plantae Poloniae exsiccatae Seria II ab Instituto Botanico Universitatis Jagellonicae et Instituto Botanico Academiae Scientiarum Polonae edita'' (1957-1961) was co-edited by Jan Kornaś and Adam Jasiewicz.

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Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences 20th-century Polish botanists Academic staff of Jagiellonian University 1898 births 1971 deaths {{Poland-botanist-stub