Władysław Skłodowski

Władysław Skłodowski (born  October 20, 1832 in Kielce , †  May 14, 1902 in Warsaw ) was a Polish teacher , biologist , journalist and translator . He was the father of the later double Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie .

Life

Władysław Skłodowski with his three daughters Maria (left), Bronisława ("Bronia") and Helena (approx. 1890)

Grave of Władysław Skłodowski

He was the son of educator and librarian Józef Skłodowski (1804-1882) and Salomea Sagtyńska. As a boy he attended school in Siedlce . He then studied physics and mathematics at the State University in Saint Petersburg and graduated in both subjects with a diploma . He then worked as a school teacher for these two subjects.

Since 1860 he was married to Marianna Bronisława Boguska. They had four daughters and a son, Zofia (1862–1876), Józef (1863–1937), Bronisława (1865–1939), Helena (1866–1961) and Maria (1867–1934). Her youngest daughter married Pierre Curie, who later won the Nobel Prize , in 1895 and received two Nobel Prizes herself .

Władysław Skłodowski was appointed deputy director of the Russian grammar school in Warsaw's Ulica Nowolipki ( German  Nowolipkistrasse ) in 1867 . In 1887 he changed his profession and became head of the state educational institution of Studzieniec, which he headed until 1890.

He wrote numerous publications and also worked as a translator. He translated works by Charles Dickens , Iwan Turgenew and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow into Polish . He is the author of a zoological handbook and he contributed in the field of botany to the Universal Encyclopedia ( Polish original title: Encyklopedia Powszechna ) by Samuel Orgelbrand .

Władysław Skłodowski was buried in the family grave in the Warsaw Powązki Cemetery .

Web links

• SKŁODY PIOTROWICE - Gniazdo rodowe Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie ( German  family history of Maria Skłodowska-Curie ) Polish, accessed on September 13, 2017