Tadeusz Wilczyński

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Commemorative plaque in Lviv

Tadeusz Wojciech Wilczyński (born October 27, 1888 in Chotowa, April 4, 1981 in Lviv) is a Polish botanist, professor and expert on the Eastern Carpathian flora.

Graduated from junior high school in Bochnia, then studied philosophy at the University of Lwow (1908-1912), in the National School of Horticulture in Wola Kapitańska near Lviv (1908-1909) and at the Agricultural Academy in Dublany (1912-1913). In the years 1912-1920 he was an assistant at the Agricultural and Chemical Station of the Academy of Agriculture in Dublans, in the years 1920-1922 as an assistant to the Plant and Botanical Garden at the University of Jan Kazimierz in Lviv, and in 1922-1929 an assistant (later a lecturer) of the State Botanical and Agricultural Research Center Lviv. In 1926 he received his doctorate degree. In later years he lectured and practiced at the Faculty of Chemistry of Lviv Polytechnic (from botany in 1923-1927) and at the Faculty of Medicine of Lviv University (from botany and pharmacognosy in 1932-1939). At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lviv was the head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and the Experimental Plant of Medicine. He also worked as a custodian in the botanical department of the. Dzieduszycki in Lviv.

After the end of the First World War, he actively participated in the reconstruction of the destroyed botanical and botanical station at Pożyżewska in Czarnohor, which is a part of the botanical branch of the botanical and agricultural station in Lviv. It resumed its operations only in 1923.

He studied the vegetation of the Eastern Carpathians and Podolia. He has discovered a number of new species of great importance in this area.

Member of the Lviv branch of the Polish Botanical Society and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of Flora records from the Carpathians Pokuckie, published, among others. in Polish Vegetable Landscapes (Imanya Mianowski Publishing House).

After 1945, Poles from Lviv resettled in the city.

He was the last living student of the pioneer of nature conservation in Poland. Marian Raciborski. His collections collected during his professional career were submitted to the Institute of Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the purposes of Polish science.

He did not set up a family. He died in loneliness in Lviv and was buried in the Lychakiv necropolis. Bibliography

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