Władysław Kulczyński
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Władysław Kulczyński (27 March 1854,
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 ...
– 9 December 1919, Kraków) was a Polish
zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...
who specialised in
arachnology Arachnology is the science, scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, Pseudoscorpionida, pseudoscorpions, Opiliones, harvestmen, Tick, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other a ...
.


Biography

Kulczyński was born in Kraków and went to school at the St. Anne's Gymnasium before joining the Jagiellonian University. He was a student of Maksimilian Nowicki and in 1879 he became a teacher in a secondary school, working for 30 years. He worked at St. Anne's Gymnasium from 1877 to 1888 and until 1912 at the St. Jacek's Gymnasium. While working as a teacher he worked on the fauna of Poland in collaboration with Jan Jachna. He also taught at the agricultural college of the Jagiellonian University from 1890. He received an honorary doctorate in 1906 and habilitated in 1909 and in 1919 he became a professor at the Jagiellonian University. In 1877 he was a member of the Physiographic Commission and served as a curator of the zoology collections after the death of Konstanty Jelski in 1897. He collected spider specimens across the region and received others from a network of contacts. Along with Chryzer he produced a two volume work on the spiders of Hungary ''Araneae Hungariae'' (1895-96).


Works

*


References

1854 births 1919 deaths 20th-century Polish zoologists Polish arachnologists Scientists from Kraków Zoologists from Austria-Hungary {{Poland-scientist-stub