People

Teacher, writer and translator. Maria was the daughter of Karol, and the sister of Tadeusz and Stanisław. Born and died in Krakow. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, was one of the first women to obtain a doctorate in philosophy and was the first doctor

Chemist, son of Karol, brother of Stanisław, born and died in Kraków. He studied chemistry at the Jagiellonian University, Leipzig, London and Berlin. He determined the boiling point and melting point of the hydrogen chloride. He built a hydrogen liquefaction device in Krakow, one of only three in the world.

A historian of law, bibliographer, journalist and director of the Jagiellonian University, born in 1869 in Krakow. He died in Sachsenhausen in 1939. Charles Estreicher‘s son. He studied law in Krakow at the Jagiellonian University, Berlin and Vienna. Professor and three-time dean and vice-rector of the Faculty of Law. He

Librarian, bibliographer, critic, historian of literature, theater, and journalism. Born and died in Krakow in 1872, died in 1908. After graduating in law and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, he worked as a trainee at the Krakow court, then at the Lviv court. Assistant professor of bibliography at the Main

Painter, born in Igława in Moravia, died in Kraków. His father, Józef, was a doctor, then his surname was Osterreicher. At the age of 18, Dominik left for Italy and studied painting at the Academy of St. Luke. In Rome he met Hugo Kołłątaj, at whose invitation he came to

Botanist, professor of the Krakow Academy, born in 1786 Director of the Botanical Garden, died in 1852 in Krakow. He studied medicine at the Krakow Academy. Doctor of medicine, assistant professor of veterinary medicine, simultaneously studied zoology, botany and mineralogy in Vienna. He was also a professor of natural history

The famous and great family of Krakow scientists who came to Poland in the second half of the 18th century from Moravia

A doctor, activist, lover of the Tatra Mountains, a painter, born in 1869 in Kraków, son of Walery Jan Kanty. He died in 1935 in Krakow. He studied medicine at the University of Lviv, became an assistant and then a clinical doctor in Zakopane. Author of aquatics, drawings and lithography.

Painter, born in 1841, died in 1905 in Kraków. He studied at the SSP and then in Munich, he made study trips to Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland. In 1872 he became a drawing teacher at St. Anna, then also in the women’s teachers’ college. A fan of the Tatra

Sculptor, born in 1847, died 1921 in Kraków. As a 16-year-old student of St. Anny took part in the January Uprising. Sentenced to 4 years of exile, he was in Perm and Nikolaevsk. After his return, he studied at the SSP in Kraków in 1868-1873, and then in Munich. Author