Zygmunt Bocheński

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Zygmunt Bocheński (born July 25, 1935 in Zakopane , † November 29, 2009 in Krakow ) was a Polish vertebrate paleontologist and ornithologist . He dealt specifically with fossil (and recent) birds.

life and work

His father Zbigniew Bocheński was an art historian. Bocheński studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków with a diploma in 1957 and a doctorate in 1961. He completed his habilitation there in 1974 and became a professor in 1983. He had been at the Institute for Systematics and Evolution of Animals at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków from 1959, was deputy head of the institute from 1979 to 1981 and head of vertebrate zoology in 1986/87. In 2006 he retired.

He published a catalog of fossil birds from Poland and the birds of the Younger Quaternary in Poland. In addition to Poland, he was also doing fieldwork in Egypt and Spain. Together with Teresa Tomek he worked on birds from the excavations of El Nabta in Egypt and with Teresa Tomek and Zbigniew M. Bocheński the birds from the excavations of the Oblazowa Cave in the Polish Carpathians.

He published on the breeding behavior of reed warblers , common thrushes and warblers and the birds of the Ojców National Park and the Babia Góra National Park .

He first described, among others, Zbigniew Bocheński, a hummingbird from the Eocene Eurotrochilus noniewiczi , whose fossils were found near Jasła in the Polish Carpathians.

1985 to 2007 he was editor of Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. He was one of the founders of the ornithological department of the Polish Zoological Society and from 1974 to 1982 president of its section in Cracow. He received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

His son Zbigniew M. Bocheński (in contrast to him, abbreviated to ZM Bochenski, he himself is abbreviated to Z. Bochenski) is also a paleornithologist.

Fonts

  • Catalog of fossil and subfossil birds of Poland . Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 36, 1993, 329-460
  • with Zbigniew M. Bochenski, Teresa Tomek A history of Polish birds . Institute for Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow 2012

literature

  • Andrzej Elżanowski Zygmunt Bocheński (1935–2009) , Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55, 2010, p. 56

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ptaki młodszego czwartorzędu Polski , Warsaw / Krakow 1974
  2. ^ Bird fauna from Bir Tarfawi, in F. Wendorf, R. Schild, AE Close (ed.) Egypt during the last interglacial , Plenum Press 1993, 159-185
  3. ^ Bochenski The Middle Pleistocene avifauna from Pinilla del Valle (Spain) , Geobios, 40, 2007, 31-37
  4. ^ Location of the oldest known boomerang with an age of around 30,000 years
  5. ↑ Bochenski, P. Kusnierczyk Nesting of Acrocephalus warblers . Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 46, 2003, 97-195
  6. ^ Bochenski, Nesting of the European members of the genus Turdus Linnaeus 1758 (Aves) . Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 13, 1968, 349-440
  7. ^ Nesting of the Sylvia Warblers , Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 29, 1985, 241-328
  8. ^ Bochenski, T. Oles: Ptaki Ojcowskiego Parku Narodowego, Acta zoologica cracoviensia , 22 1977, 319-372
  9. ^ Zygmunt and Zbigniew Bochenski, An Old World hummingbird from the Oligocene: a new fossil from Polish Carpathians . Journal of Ornithology, 149, 2008, 211-216
personal data
SURNAME Bocheński, Zygmunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish paleontologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zakopane
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2009
Place of death Krakow