Józef Dziędzielewicz (September 4, 1844 – February 24, 1918) was a Polish entomologist and a specialist on the insect fauna of the Carpathians particularly of the Neuroptera, Trichoptera, and Odonata. Dziędzielewicz was born on in Lviv and when at high school became a friend of

Marian Łomnicki Marian Alojzy Łomnicki (9 September 1845 – 26 October 1915) was a Polish geologist, zoologist, paleontologist and encyclopedist. His son Antoni Marian Łomnicki became a mathematician, while another son Jarosław Łomnicki became an entomologi ...

, who introduced him to entomology. He then went to study Law at the University of Lviv and here he came in contact with count

Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki Count Włodzimierz Ksawery Tadeusz Dzieduszycki (; 22 June 1825 – 18 September 1899) was a Polish noble, landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts of Ruthenian heritage. Włodzimierz became the first Ordynat of the ...

who was setting up a natural history museum. He collected specimens in the field and helped Dzieduszycki organize the collections of the museum. He received a doctorate in law in 1871 and became a court intern at Przemyśl. He later worked in Lviv, Pechenizhin, Kołomyja, Chortkiv, Tarnopol and Kołomyja. In 1867 he became a member of the Krakow Scientific Society's physiographic commission and surveyed river basins in the region. He publisher a paper on lacewings and became a member of the Tatra Society. He moved to Lviv in 1895 and the next year he became a secretary of the council of Dzieduszycki's museum. He began to study dragonflies and in 1905 he worked as a court councillor. He retired from his legal profession in 1907 and continued to study insects including the collections of

Maksymilian Nowicki Maksymilian Siła-Nowicki (9 October 1826 – 30 October 1890) was a Polish zoology professor and pioneer conservationist in Austrian Poland. His major studies were on the beetles and lepidoptera of eastern Galicia. Later in life, he was inv ...

made in the Tatras. He collaborated with Piotr Kempny,

František Klapálek František Klapálek (30 or 31 August 1863 – 3 February 1919) was an entomologist from Bohemia, for most of his life part of Austria-Hungary. He was particularly interested in the mayflies and other freshwater insect fauna. He was also the first ...

, Kenneth J. Morton, Friedrich Ris, Georg Ulmer and

Günther Enderlein Günther Enderlein (7 July 1872 – 11 August 1968) was a German zoologist, entomologist, microbiologist, researcher, physician for 60 years, and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products. Enderlein received international renown for his ...

. He produced a monograph on the dragonflies of the region. He moved to Myślenice in 1915 and stayed there during World War I and until his death.

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