Dimensions: 29 x 37 cm
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Framed work
Biography
Marian Alojzy Lomnicki (born September 9, 1845 in Bavorov, died October 26, 1915 in Lviv) - Polish geologist and zoologist, father of mathematician Antoni Marian Lomnicki and entomologist Jaroslaw Lomnicki.
He studied natural sciences in 1864-1867 as a scholarship student of Vladimir Dzieduszycki. He began his studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and continued 1867-1868 at the University of Vienna, where he studied geology with Eduard Suess and paleontology with Rudolf Kner.
From 1869-1904 he was a gymnasium teacher, first at the Franz Josef Gymnasium in Lviv, then in Stanislawow and from 1879 at the Fourth Gymnasium in Lviv. In 1878-1882 he taught zoology at the Agricultural College in Dublany. In addition to his teaching work, he was engaged in researching the stratigraphy of the Miocene of Podolia and Roztocze. As a zoologist, he researched the beetle fauna of the Lviv area, and conducted research during discoveries in the village of Starunia near Nadwórna.
He was curator of the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv from 1905. He published a number of scientific works, including Geological Atlas of Galicia (1895-1906), List of beetles or taiga beetles (Coleoptera) of Polish lands (1913). He completed and published in 1892 a monograph of the molluscs of the Polish lands entitled. "Molluscs (Mollusca)" written down by Józef Bąkowski[1]. In 1896-1897 he was president of the Polish Society of Naturalists named after Copernicus.
In recognition of his scientific merits, the Franciscan University of Lvov awarded Lomnicki a Doctorate (of Philosophy) Honoris Causa in 1912.
Józef Bąkowski (December 24, 1848 Zalesie near Janów - July 26, 1887 Lviv).
Teacher by profession, passionate zoologist (specializing in molluscs) and florist, member of the Physiogr. Commission. AU. He amassed a rich malacological collection, which later became part of the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv.
His works on molluscs also concerned the Tatra Mountains , e.g. Molluscs of the Tatras ("Kosmos" 1883) and Molluscs of Galicia (ibid. 1884). His monographic work Molluscs (Mollusca) was not published until posthumously in 1892. He also published floristic, didactic and pop.-scientific works. Two new varieties of mollusks were named after him (by German zoologist C. Clessin).
