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Jakub Szymkiewicz (1775–1818) – wileński lekarz, filantrop, publicysta. Retusz biograficzny

Maria Korybut-Marciniak

Modern medicine, Volume 30 (2024) Issue 2, 2024, pp. 95 - 124

https://doi.org/10.4467/12311960MN.24.050.20880

Jakub Szymkiewicz (1775–1818) is mainly known in the history of medicine for his works: The Science of Theoretical and Practical Surgery and The Science of Children’s Diseases. In the literary sphere, he became famous as the initiator of the Society of Shovelers and its first president, as well as the co-founder of a satirical magazine, which was the press organ of the society, “Wiadomości Brukowe” (“Street News”), in which he published articles under the pseudonym “Nobleman on a shovel”. He was a bright personality in the Masonic movement, a reformer of one of the most active Lithuanian lodges, striving above all to make social reforms effective, and a member of the Vilnius Charity Society. He was also the fi rst Polish author of a scientific treatise on alcoholism. This article aims to present the fi gure of the Vilnius doctor in a broader historical context, to complete the threads of his biography as far as the surviving sources allow, and to revise the errors repeated in his biographies.

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Zielnik Marii Twardowskiej (1858–1907) jako pretekst do szkicu biograficznego kresowej botaniczki

Maria Korybut-Marciniak

Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, Volume 66, Issue 3, 2021, pp. 85 - 103

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.21.020.14181

The article presents the figure of Maria Twardowska née Skirmunt (1858–1907), researcher of the Lithuanian flora, promoter of natural science, author of articles on botany, and social activist. Twardowska was one of the first women to conduct independent research on the Polish/Lithuanian flora. She published in ‘Wszechświat’ and ‘Pamiętnik Fizjograficzny’. She kept scientific contacts with Polish botanists – Edward Janczewski, Józef Rostafiński, Władysław Dybowski, and Antoni Rehman. She is the author of the herbarium, which was in the collection of the Poznań Society of Friends of Sciences until the Second World War.

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Maria Korybut-Marciniak

Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski, Wydział Humanistyczny ( Poland)