Marian Alojzy Łomnicki (9 September 1845 – 26 October 1915) was a Polish geologist, zoologist, paleontologist and encyclopedist. His son
Antoni Marian Łomnicki Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the f ...
became a mathematician, while another son
Jarosław Łomnicki
Jarosław Ludomir Łomnicki (19 May 1873 – 15 April 1931) was a Polish geologist and entomologist. Son of the paleontologist Marian Łomnicki, he succeeded as curator of the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv.
Łomnicki was born in Stanisławów (Sta ...
became an entomologist.
Life and work
Łomnicki was born in Baworów in the
Ternopil
Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...
region where his parents Jakub and Magdalena née Borkowski belonged to impoverished noble family of Suchekomnaty. The wilderness around the region made him interested in nature at an early age. At the Lviv gymnasium he took an interest in science. In 1858
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 ...
became a teacher there and Nowicki began to collaborate with
Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki
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. Nowicki also introduced Łomnicki to geology through
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. Other influences included the botanist
Władysław Tyniecki
Władysław Tyniecki (5 May 1833 – 16 October 1912) was a Polish forester and botanist who served as a professor at the school of forestry in Lviv. He was the founding editor of the journal ''Sylwan''. Life and work
Tyniecki was born in Olsz ...
. Łomnicki received a scholarship from Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow from 1867 to 1868 and then at the University of Vienna. In Vienna he studied geology under
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess (; 20 August 1831 – 26 April 1914) was an Austrian geologist and an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed in 1861) and ...
and paleontology under
Rudolf Kner
Rudolf Ignaz Kner (24 August 1810 – 27 October 1869) was an Austrian geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and ichthyologist. He also wrote some poems which were published by his brother-in-law K.A. Kaltenbrunner.
Biography
Kner was bo ...
. He then qualified as a secondary school teacher and began to teach a year at the Franciszek Józef gymnasium Lviv Gymnasium and then at Stanisławów for nine years before returning to Lviv in 1879. He spent the next 25 years teaching at the 4th gymnasium. He collected insects through his life. From 1878 he also lectured at the school of agriculture in Dublany. He examined the Miocene of
Podolia
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. He described the ammonite ''
Pachydiscus stanislaopolitanus'' in 1871 from the Cretaceous near Stanisławów. He contributed to the geological atlas of Galicia and published two book on zoology. From 1905 he was curator at the Dzieduszycki museum. In 1912 he received an honorary doctorate from the Franciscan University in Lviv.
Łomnicki was decorated
Knight of the Order of Franz Joseph. Łomnicki's wife Maria Szczucka was an activist who had been involved in nationalist movements. He died in Lviv and was buried in the Łyczakowski cemetery.
References
External links
;Publications
Wykaz chrząszczów czyli tęgopokrywych (Coleoptera) ziem polskich : (catalogus Coleopterorum Poloniae)(1913)
Zapiski geologiczne z wycieczki na Podole(1873)
Pleistoceńskie owady z Borysławia(1894)
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1845 births
1915 deaths
Polish naturalists