1. Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski was a Polish naturalist and physician.
11 Facts About Benedykt Dybowski
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Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility.
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Benedykt Dybowski studied at Minsk High School, and later medicine at Tartu University in present-day Estonia.
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Benedykt Dybowski later studied at Wroclaw University and went on expeditions to seek and study oceanic fishes and crustaceans.
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Benedykt Dybowski became a professor of zoology at the Warsaw Main School.
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Benedykt Dybowski's sentence was later reduced to 12 years in Siberia.
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Benedykt Dybowski started studying the natural history of Siberia and in 1866 a governor Muraviov dismissed Dybowski from hard labour, renewed his civil rights and proposed him to work as a doctor in hospital.
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Benedykt Dybowski later settled in the small village Kultuk and began a detailed study of Baikal Lake with some technical support from the Russian Geographical Society.
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Benedykt Dybowski served as a medical doctor for the indigenous population of Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander Islands, Bering Island, making four trips per year around the populated areas there.
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Benedykt Dybowski was a president of the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists.
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Apart from that in 1921 Benedykt Dybowski was given an honorary doctorate by the Warsaw's University, and in 1923 by the University of Wilno.