Bronisław Leonard Radziszewski

Bronisław Leonard Radziszewski

Bronisław Leonard Radziszewski ([ brɔ'ɲiswaf lɛ'ɔnart raʥi'ʃɛfskʲi ], born November 6, 1838 in Warsaw , † March 11, 1914 in Lwów ) was a Polish chemist.

Life

In 1855 he finished high school in Warsaw, after which he began studying natural sciences at Moscow University (1855–1861). From October 1862 to June 1863 he was a natural history teacher in the III. High school in Warsaw. He took an active part in the January Uprising :

• as an assistant to the State Secretary of the National Council Józef Kajetan Janowski
• as Council Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in the Augustów Voivodeship (under the pseudonym Ignacy Czyński)

After the failure of the uprising, he went to Belgium, where he studied chemistry in Ghent from 1864–1867 . He completed his habilitation in 1867, after which he was a chemistry assistant at the University of Leuven for three years . In 1870 he moved to Cracow , where he was deputy professor of chemistry in the Technical Institute and teacher at the secondary school. In June 1872 he was appointed professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry at Lwów University. He was the first chemistry professor at Lwów University to teach this subject in Polish. He was also head of the chair and pharmaceutical studies and director of the Institute of Chemistry. In 1874 he became a full professor, in the academic year 1879–1880 he held the position of dean of the Philosophical Faculty, and from 1882–1883 ​​that of the rector of the University of Lwów.

From 1869 to 1885 he commented on current scientific findings in over 30 publications in the field of organic chemistry. He founded the School of Chemistry in Lemberg (Lwów).

He was very active in social life. In the years 1874-1903 he was a councilor in Lemberg (now Lwów). As rector he sat in the Landessejm . In 1874 he founded the Polish Society of Scientists Copernicus together with Feliks Kreutz , of which he was a board member, and 1877–1878 and 1890–1891 its chairman. From 1876 to 1913 he published 135 articles in the magazine Kosmos , which he founded . He was a member of the Academy of Sciences (from 1874 a corresponding member, from 1881 an active member), a member of the Academy of Sciences in Prague , a member of the Galician Society of Pharmacists, the Society of Czech Chemists in Prague, the State Mining Council, the examination committee for secondary school teachers.

He is buried in the Łyczakowski cemetery .

Web links

• Bronisław Radziszewski . ( Memento of February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Muzeum Geologiczne