Count Włodzimierz Ksawery Tadeusz Dzieduszycki (; 22 June 1825 – 18 September 1899) was a Polish

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, landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts of Ruthenian heritage. Włodzimierz became the first

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of the Poturzyca estate. He was owner of the Poturzyca, Zarzecze, Kramarzowka, Markpol, Lachowice, Dobraczyn, Medowa, Jaryszow, Konarzewo, Gluszyn, Wiry and Szczytnik estates and a founder of the Natural History Museum in

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(Lwów). He was one of the first Polish

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to replace

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on his estates.

Biography

Dzieduszycki was born in Jaryszów in the Russian Podolia, the son of Józef Kalasanty (1776–1847) and Paulina Anna née Dżialyńscy and was educated in Poland and from 1840 in

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and

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. Józef had been active in the Kościuszko Uprising and the Napoleonic campaign before settling at home and working as a bibliographer. Paulina was the sister of Tytus Działyński who was a keen naturalist and collector. In 1846 Wlodzimierz returned to Poland. During the

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in 1848, he became a member of the "Council of the Nation of Lwow" (''Centralna Rada Narodowa Lwowska'') and pro-Polish organisation '' Ruski (Ruskyi) Sobor'' (opposite to the Holovna Ruska Rada). He was also a member of the "Economic Society of Galicia". In 1855 Dzieduszycki became a cofounder of the Dubliany Ploughing School (today Agricultural Academy).Chornovol, I.
Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004 He supported publishing houses, spent money for scientific works and school books. Dzieduszycki was a great enthusiast of the

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Arts and financed translation into Polish for the work of Volodymyr Shukhevych "Hutsulshchyna". In 1863 he partly financed and participated in the civil organisation of the

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In 1881 Wlodzimierz became a member of the

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. Dzieduszycki collected specimens of fauna and flora from his childhood and held them in his palace in Poturzyce, 80 km north of Lviv. His collection grew with additions of fossils and minerals from Professor Ludwik Zejszner and plants from Jan Łobarzewski. He moved a part of this collection to Lvov to a building in Fredro Street in 1854 and then to Kurkowa Street (now Lysenka Street) in 1857. As the collections grew he bought a building in 1868 on Teatralna Street where the museum still stands. It was open to the public in 1870. The museum is now called the State Museum of Natural History of the

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. The Museum includes a rich natural collection, mainly ornithology, ethnography and numismatic objects and a large collection of books. The entomological collections were organized by Józef Dziędzielewicz. He was also co-founder of the Museum of Industry of Arts (Muzeum Przemysłu Artystycznego) in 1874 in Lviv and founder the "Hunting Society of Lesser Poland" in 1885. Wlodzimierz became a member the

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in 1865, 1874 and from 1895 until 1899; he served as

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from 7 March until 26 April 1876. He was also a member of the Herrenhaus from 1874. He was author of several scientific works (nature and ethnography), and from 1894

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of the

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Family

Włodzimierz married Alfonsyna Miączyńska on 19 September 1853 in Lwów and had four children: * Countess Klementyna Dzieduszycka * Countess Anna Dzieduszycka * Countess Maria Dzieduszycka * Countess

Jadwiga Dzieduszycka Countess Jadwiga Dzieduszycka (1867–1941) was a Polish noble lady. Family Jadwiga was married to Prince Witold Leon Czartoryski on 21 February 1889 in Lwów. They had twelve children together: * Maria Anna Czartoryska * Anna Maria Czartorysk ...

, was married to Prince

Witold Leon Czartoryski Prince Witold Leon Karol Adam Jarosław Jerzy Czartoryski (10 February 1864 – 6 September 1945) was a Polish noble (szlachcic) and landowner. He served as the general commissar of Galicia and Lodomeria from the end of Russian occupation in 19 ...

Eponymy

''Dzieduszyckia'', a

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, was named in his honour.

References

Bibliography

* Gabriel Brzęk – Muzeum im. Dzieduszyckich we Lwowie i jego Twórca

External links

Forum akademickie – Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki

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Galicja i wystawa powszechna w Wiedniu 1873 : luźne myśli rzucone ludziom dobrej woli
(1872)
Führer durch das gräflich Dzieduszyckische Museum im Lemberg
(1896)
Grfl. Dzieduszycki'sches Museum in Lemberg : 1. Abteilung - Zoologie Wierbelthiere, 2 - Vögel
(1880)
Przewodnik po Muzeum im. Dzieduszyckich we Lwowie
(1890) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dzieduszycki, Wlodzimierz 1825 births 1899 deaths People from Vinnytsia Oblast People from Mogilyovsky Uyezd (Podolian Governorate) Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Austrian Empire People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent Counts of Poland Marshals of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria Wlodzimierz Polish biologists Polish art collectors Polish curators Members of the Polish Ethnological Society