Bohdan Dobrzański

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Bohdan Dobrzański
Born(1909-03-03)3 March 1909
Strutynka, Russian Empire
Died15 July 1987(1987-07-15) (aged 78)
Warsaw, Poland
Citizenship 
Institute of Agrophysics PAS

Bohdan Dobrzański (3 March 1909 – 15 July 1987) was a

Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin, and the Polish Journal of Soil Science. He is a co-author of the official Table of Land Classes and criteria for valorisation of agricultural production areas. He was awarded a number of prizes and medals including The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
.

Life and education

Bohdan Dobrzański was born in Strutynka (Струтинка), a village currently in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. He was the son of Stanisław Dobrzański and Zofia née Mianowska. His father was a property administrator. In 1922, he moved to Poland and settled in Puławy with his mother. His father died of typhus during the move.[1]

In 1929, after finishing high school in Puławy, he started his studies at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in

Nazi army, he moved to Podolia, where he worked in one of the forestry districts. At the end of 1944 he got employed by the Agricultural Office in Rzeszów, where he organized agricultural courses.[3]

After the war, Dobrzański moved to

doctor habilitatus. In 1951 he became an associate professor, and in 1956 full-time professor. In 1955 he joined the organization of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture, 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 the establishment of the first Chair of Soil Science in Poland, at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture. Dobrzański also created and managed the Laboratory of Soil Science at the Institute for Land Reclamation and Grassland Farming in Lublin. From 1957 until 1962, 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, and in 1969 a full member.[2]

In 1968 Dobrzański initiated the founding of the

doctor honoris causa (honorary doctor) of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture. In the same year, he became secretary general of the Polish Academy of Sciences and head of the Department of Soil Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences.[1]
Because of that he moved to Warsaw. In 1970 the Department became the Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry; Dobrzański directed it until 1979. In 1980 he became the honorary doctor of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, and six years later of the Academy of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn.

Dobrzański was also an 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]

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

Work

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

Awards and decorations

  • Award of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education
  • Order of the Banner of Work
  • The Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  • The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Uziak, Stanisław. "Bohdan Dobrzański (1909-1987)". rme.cbr.net.pl (in Polish). Polish Academy of Science. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-83-932996-0-7. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2015-04-13.
  3. ^ a b c d Rodziewicz, Joanna. "Bohdan Dobrzański – wybitny polski gleboznawca". Rolniczy Magazyn Ekonomiczny nr 44 (in Polish). Retrieved 2018-09-30.
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