Jadwiga Wołoszyńska

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Jadwiga Wołoszyńska (born April 5, 1882 in Nadwórna in Galicia , † August 30, 1951 in Cracow ) was a Polish botanist and university professor . Her fields of work were algology , limnology and paleobotany . Your official botanical author abbreviation is “ Wołosz. ".

Wołoszyńska was the first to graduate from Lwów University and the second woman to receive a professorship at Jagiellonian University . She described 171 new species of algae .

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Wołoszyńska studied botany at the University of Lwów from 1903 to 1907 and received his doctorate in 1912. She specialized in algae science and examined lakes in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Java , Sumatra and Africa as well as algae in the Baltic Sea . Wołoszyńska became the assistant of Władysław Szafer at the Jagiellonian University in 1924 . In 1930 she became a lecturer and in 1932 the second woman professor. She and the Indologist Helena Willman-Grabowska remained the only university teachers until 1945 . After the Second World War , Wołoszyńska was appointed to the Chair of Pharmaceutical Botany in 1946, which was transferred to the Collegium Medicum in Cracow in 1950 . She continued teaching until her death.

Wołoszyńska published 50 articles in scientific journals, including descriptions of seven new genera , 126 species descriptions and 45 new fossil species.

Wołoszyńska was a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (PAU) scientific society . She was buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.

The armored flagellant Gymnodinium pseudoplaustre Woloszynskia apiculata and the species Jadwigia were named after Jadwiga Wołoszyńska .

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  • The phytoplankton of some Javanese lakes, including the Sawa plankton. 1912.
  • Glony stawów i młak tatrzańskich (The algae of the Tatra lakes and ponds). 1918.
  • Studja porównawcze nad jeziorami tatrzańskiemi i Pojezierzem ... 1924, 1926.
  • Dinoflagellatae polskiego Baltyku i Blot nad Piasnica (Dinoflagellatae of the Polish Baltic Sea and the swamps on Piasnica). 1928.
  • Asterionella formosa hatred. var. tatrica n. var. w jeziorach tatrzańskich. 1934.
  • About a water bloom of Cyanophyceae in the Gdańsk Bay and an overgrowth of the diatom Chaetoceros Eibenii Grun. 1935.
  • Bruzdnice Tatr i Karpat Wschodnich. 1951-52.

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SURNAME Wołoszyńska, Jadwiga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Nadwórna , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1951
Place of death Krakow