Electronic inventory of European bird collections
Museum and Institute of Zoology (MZPW for c)
What is in the bird collection?
| Skins | 40000 |
| Egg sets | 0 |
| Skeletons | 0 |
| Mounts | n/a |
| Spirits | 0 |
| Nests | n/a |
| Other Items | n/a |
People
Current staff
| Full name | Job title | eBEAC member |
|---|---|---|
| Tomasz Huflejt | No |
Important past bird staff
| Full name | Job title | eBEAC member |
|---|---|---|
| T. Chrostowski | No | |
| J. Domaniewski | No | |
| A. Dunajewski | No | |
| B. Dybowski | No | |
| M. Jankowski | No | |
| K. Jelski | No | |
| J. Kalinowski | No | |
| J. Sztolcman | No | |
| L. Taczanowski | No | |
| S. Zielinski | No |
Museum and Institute of Zoology
P. A. N. (Polish Academy of Sciences), Ul. Wilcza 64, PL-00 679 Warszawa, Poland
- Email:
- thuflejt@robal.miiz.waw.pl
- Website:
- www.miiz.waw.pl/en/
- Tel:
- 022 629 32 21
- Fax:
Summary
The origin of the Museum and Institute dates back to the 19th century. After purchasing the zoological collection of Baron Sylwiusz Minckwitz from Gronowice in Silesia in 1818 , the Commission of Religion and Public Education of the Polish Kingdom created the Zoological Cabinet at the Chair of Zoology of the Royal University of Warsaw in 1819. Its first curator being Doctor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy, Feliks Pawel Jarocki, soon nominated an "adopted professor" and the head of the Chair of Zoology. Minckwitz's collection included about 20,000 specimens, among which the bird collection was especially valuable. A part of the collection has been preserved till now in the Museum's collection.
Brief history
A combination of the cabinet of F. P. Jarocki (from 1819) and the private coll. of Constantin & Xaver Graf von Branicki (founded 1887), which latter came to government in 1919 (with Domaniewski as first director of the combination); now belongs to the Polish Acad. of Sciences
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