InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Józef Warszewicz
Born: September 8, 1812 in Vilnius, LithuaniaDied: December 29, 1866 in Cracow, Poland
He grew up in Vilnius, and became a botanist at the botanical garden of the Vilnius University. While at the university, he joined the November Uprising which was suppressed. That's why he fled to Germany. In the years 1840-1844 he worked as assistant gardener in the Botanical Garden at Berlin.
In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was send to a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens. Warszewicz was especially interested in orchids. He traveled and collected extensively throughout Central America, discovering a wealth of new plant species in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama. Because of health problems he returned in 1853 to Europe and became supervisor of the Botanical Gardens in Cracow.
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Costa Rica 1975, 07 III |
