Bohdan Dobrzański

Bohdan Dobrzański
Born (1909-03-03)March 3, 1909
Strutynka, Ukraine
Died July 15, 1987(1987-07-15) (aged 78)
Warsaw, Poland
Residence Puławy, Warsaw, Lublin
Citizenship  Poland
Alma mater Lviv Polytechnic
Awards Polonia Restituta
Scientific career
Fields Soil science, Agrophysics
Institutions Lviv Polytechnic,
Agricultural Office in Rzeszów,
Warsaw University of Life Sciences,
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University,
Lublin Higher School of Agriculture,
Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming,
Institute of Agrophysics PAS

Bohdan Dobrzański (3 March 1909 – 15 July 1987) – Polish soil scientist.

Life and education

Bohdan was born in Strutynka (Струтинка) in Ananyiv Raion on Ukraine. He was a son of Stanisław Dobrzański, the coat of arms of Leliwa and Zofia nee Mianowska. His father was property administrator. In 1922, together with his mother, he moved to Poland and settled in Puławy. His father died on typhus during travel.[1]

In 1929, after graduating high school in Puławy, he started studies at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lviv Polytechnic (then Lviv was part of Poland, nwadays it is in Ukraine).[2] In 1933, after graduating, he started working as an agricultural instructor in the Lviv Agricultural Office. At the same time, he was an assistant in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Lviv Polytechnic, headed by prof. Arkadiusz Musierowicz, with headquarters in Dubliany near Lviv. In 1939 he obtained a PhD in Agricultural science. The same year, after the invasion of Red Army to Eastern Poland he decided to remaine at the university as a docent.[1] In 1941, after the occupation of Lviv by the Nazi army, he moved to Podolia, where he worked in one of the forestry districts. At the end of 1944 he was employed in the Agricultural Office in Rzeszów, where he organized agricultural courses.[3]

After the finish of war Bohdan Dobrzański moved to Warsaw where he started work as an adiunkt in Warsaw University of Life Sciences. At the same time he often traveled to Rzeszów, where from 1945 he was the director of the Agricultural Office. In 1946, after moving prof. Jan Tomaszewski to Wrocław, at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin,the post of the head of the Department of Soil Science at the Faculty of Agriculture has become vacant. Bohdan Dobrzański took it as an assistant professor.[1] At the same time, he became the curator of the Department of Plant Fertilization and Nutrition; he held this position until 1949. In 1949 he presented habilitation thesis about loess soils of the northern edge of Podolia and their properties, and became doctor habilitatus. In 1951 he became an associate professor and in 1956 he became a full professor. In 1955 he was started organization of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, which was established from the Faculty of Agriculture, Veterinary and Zootechnic UMCS (nowadays University of Life Sciences in Lublin).[3] For the next four years he was the rector there. In 1955 he led to the establishment of the first in Poland Chair of Soil Science at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture. At the same time, he created and managed the Laboratory of Soil Science in the Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming in Lublin. From 1957, for five years, he was the deputy secretary of Division 5 of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1960 he became a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1969 - a real member.[2]

In 1968 Bohdan Dobrzański initiated the founding of the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, where he was a director till 1980. He created a new research field there: physics of plants and crops. In 1969, he was honored with the title of an doctor honoris causa (honorary doctor) of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture. In the same year, he was became secretary general of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a head of the Department of Soil Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences.[1] Because ot that he moved to Warsaw. In 1970 the Department became the Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry; prof. Dobrzański directed it until 1979. In 1980 he became the honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, and six years later - the Academy of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn. Bohdan Dobrzański was also a honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the USSR and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR.[1]

Professor Bohdan Dobrzański died on July 15, 1987 in Warsaw and was buried in the Powązki Cemetery.[3]

Work

Bohdan Dobrzański was an author or co-author of over 350 publications, including over 160 research papers. They were mainly about the genesis and evolution of soils, as well as the influence of man on their properties. He also dealt with soil cartography and co-authored all major cartographic studies that appeared in Poland from 1949 to 1987.[3] In 1968 he established Polish Journal of Soil Science scientific journal and managed it till 1987. He was co-author of official Table of Land Classes and developed criteria for valorisation of agricultural production area, which led to create soil-agricultural maps at various scales.[1]

Awards and decorations

and other.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Uziak, Stanisław. "Bohdan Dobrzański (1909-1987)". rme.cbr.net.pl (in Polish). Polish Academy of Science. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  2. 1 2 Wośkowski, Tadeusz (2011). Dzieje studiów rolniczo-lasowych w ośrodku lwowsko-dublańskich w opracowaniu Tadeusza Wośkowskiego (PDF) (in Polish). Warszawa: Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza im. Michała Oczapowskiego. ISBN 978-83-932996-0-7.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Rodziewicz, Joanna. "Bohdan Dobrzański – wybitny polski gleboznawca". Rolniczy Magazyn Ekonomiczny nr 44 (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-09-30.


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