Tadas Ivanauskas
Tadas Ivanauskas (born December 16, 1882 in Lebiodka, (today Ljabjodka, Hrodsenskaja Woblasz , Belarus ); † June 1, 1970 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian biologist and one of the founders of the Vytautas Magnus University and the Zoomuseum in Kaunas.
biography
After the grammar school in Warsaw until 1901 he attended the 1st grammar school in Saint Petersburg , where he also attended the university from 1903. Here he met Lithuanian students and learned the Lithuanian language .
From 1905 to 1909 Ivanauskas attended the Natural History Faculty of the Sorbonne and graduated in 1909. From 1904 he was a member of the Lithuanian Association Lituania . With the patriotic activist Michał Römer , he gave lectures on Lithuania in Paris in 1905.
He then attended the University of Saint Petersburg again until 1910, as foreign diplomas were not recognized in Russia at that time. Here he became chairman of the Lithuanian Student Union.
From 1910 he prepared botanical and zoological exhibits in the Zootom laboratory . In 1914 and 1917 he took part in expeditions to northern Russia and Norway . In 1918 he returned to Lithuania with his wife Honorata and founded a Lithuanian school.
In 1920 he became a consultant at the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture in Kaunas and organized lectures that later led to the establishment of the university there. In 1923 he opened the Botanical Garden in Kaunas with Konstantinas Regelis .
From 1922 to 1956 he was a professor at the Lithuanian University in Kaunas. He also gave lectures at the Kaunas Medical Institute until 1970 .
Among other merits, he became known as the founder of one of the first bird observatories in Europe in 1929 at the Windenburger Eck . He also founded the Kaunas Zoological Garden in 1938. He published 37 books and brochures, the most famous of which was The Birds of Lithuania .
Web links
- Acta Zoologica Lituanica, 2002, Volume 12, Numerus 2, p. 207 accessed on July 14, 2009 (English, PDF, 669 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ivanauskas, Tadas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ivanovsky, Tadeusz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian zoologist, biologist and patriot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lebiodka , Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1970 |
| Place of death | Kaunas |