Tytuł
Korespondencja Benedykta Dybowskiego do Janusza Domaniewskiego w latach 1917-1918
Autorzy
[ 1 ] Muzeum Zoologiczne, Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN | [ P ] pracownik
Dyscyplina naukowa (Ustawa 2.0)
Rok publikacji
2018
Typ książki
monografia naukowa
Język publikacji
polski
Streszczenie
EN This volume of Memorabilia Zoologica contains Benedykt Dybowski’s unpublished letters to Janusz Domaniewski from 1917 to 1918. These letters are a valuable contribution to the biography of both naturalists, as well as to the history of Polish scientific institutions. The correspondence complements works devoted to the history of Warsaw zoological collections, mainly of the Zoological Cabinet of the University of Warsaw. It comprises, among other things, a lot of information about the “evacuation” of the collection into the depths of Russia in 1915. The presented material includes an interesting description of other nature collections in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, as well as the activities of scientific journals, boards and committees. The correspondence brings closer the fate of many scientists – often called up to the army, detained, living at risk of starvation, threatened with robbery, censored and usually deprived of the possibility of scientific work. Numerous remarks on the development of the Siberian fauna, evolutionism, its reception in Poland and Russia, acclimatization, the concept of species and taxonomy are invaluable testimony to the history of natural sciences at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Dybowski’s letters written at the end of the First World War, referring to actions for independence, are important documents for the analysis of the political and economic situation on Polish lands in that crucial period. In his correspondence, Benedykt Dybowski devoted a lot of attention to scientific institutions of the future Poland and its education system. In his letters we find expressions of his long-lasting passion for promoting Esperanto as a universal language and a carrier of equality between people, anticlericalism, the fight against alcoholism, gambling and all other social vices, the promotion of milk drinking and many other utopian ideas characteristic for Dybowski – an eccentric and romantic figure. This volume is the first where Benedykt Dybowski’s correspondence is published. We are planning to include further unpublished letters of this scientist in subsequent volumes.
Wydawca z listy Ministerstwa
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Data opublikowania
2018
Liczba stron
2018
ISBN
978-83-88147-21-0
ISSN
0076-6372
Całkowita wartość punktowa monografii
80
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