Friedrich Johann Grabowski,Taką wersję pisowni nazwiska podaje Solski L., Strehlow H., 2015: 150 lat ZOO Wrocław. Wyd. ZOO Wrocław sp. z o.o., Wrocław, p. 62. , this spelling is also in Grabowski's handwritten signature in his diary, see photo in: Solski & Strehlow, p. 92 also spelled as Fryderyk Grabowski and Grabowsky,This spelling is found in guides to the zoo authored by Grabowski, see reproductions in Solski L., Strehlow H., 2015, p. 76 (27 January 1857 – 20 January 1929) was a German biologist and speleologist,Solski, Strehlow 2015, p. 62 director of the Wrocław Zoo between 18 March 1901 and 20 January 1929 (with an interruption from 1921 to 1927).
He undertook two major naturalist expeditions: in 1880 to India, Ceylon and Borneo, and in 1886–1887 to New Guinea. In addition to collecting specimens, he also carried out ethnological observations. From 1891 he worked at the Natural History Museum in Braunschweig. In 1901 he became director of the Wrocław Zoo. After its closure in 1921 for financial reasons, Grabowski worked for its reopening in 1927, when he once again became director.Solski, Strehlow 2015, pp. 62, 92, 97 His main research field was botany, but he also conducted zoological studies, including ornithological work. In 1901 he became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/Friedrich-Grabowsky/ Entry in the Leopoldina membership list
Taxa named after Grabowski Solanaceae: Grabowskia ameghinoi Speg. – Nov. Add. Fl. Patag. ii. (1902), repr. 48. Solanaceae: Grabowskia boerhaaviaefolia Kuntze – Revis. Gen. Pl. 3, pt. 2: 221. 1898 Solanaceae: Grabowskia geniculata C.L.Hitchc. – Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 331. 1932 Solanaceae: Grabowskia glauca I.M.Johnst. – Contr. Gray Herb. 85: 112. 1929 Solanaceae: Grabowskia megalosperma Speg. – Nov. Add. Fl. Patag. ii. (1902), repr. 46. Solanaceae: Grabowskia schizocalyx Dammer – Meded. Rijks-Herb. 29: 22. 1916 Solanaceae: Grabowskia sodiroi Bitter – Abh. Naturwiss. Vereine Bremen 23: 120. 1914 Solanaceae: Grabowskia spegazzinii Dusén – Ark. Bot. 7, no. 2: 33, pl. 4, 8. 1907 Araceae: Cryptocoryne grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 28. Araceae: Homalomena grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 45 (1912). Araceae: Piptospatha grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 125 (1912). Araceae: Rhynchopyle grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. 20. Araceae: Schismatoglottis grabowskii Engl. – in Engl. Pflanzenreich, Arac. Homalomen.-Schismatoglott. 121 (1912).
Calamaria grabowskyi.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calamaria grabowskyi, p. 105).
References
Bibliography Mirosław Syniawa, Biograficzny słownik przyrodników śląskich, vol. 1, Centrum Dziedzictwa Przyrody Górnego Śląska, Katowice 2006, pp. 119–120 (with photograph)
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