Hugo Zapałowicz (15 November 1852, in
Ljubljana
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– 20 November 1917, in Perovsk
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Zapałowicz was a pioneer researcher of flora and geological structure of the Carpathian Mountains. He was also a geological, geographical, and flora researcher of South America
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and author of works about flora of Babia Góra-Babia Hora, Maramureş Mountains, Pokuttya
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.
In 1894 he became a member of the Academy of Learning Academy of Learning ( pl, Akademia Umiejętności; AU) was a primary Polish scientific institution during the annexation of Poland established in 1871. It was founded in Kraków
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1852 births
1917 deaths
Slovenian botanists
Botanists active in South America
Naturalists from Austria-Hungary
Natural scientists
19th-century naturalists
Scientists from Ljubljana
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