%0 Journal Article
%T What Do We Know about the Branicki Museum? Jan Sztolcman’s Letters to Benedykt Dybowski from the Poznań PAS Archives – an Interesting Contribution to the History of Natural History Collections in Poland
%A Daszkiewicz, Piotr
%A Iwan, Dariusz
%J Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.20.013.11994
%N Volume 65, Issue 2
%P 77-87
%K the Branicki Museum, natural history collections, Jan Sztolcman, Benedykt Dybowski, history of zoology
%@ 0023-589X
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/co-wiemy-o-muzeum-branickich-listy-jana-sztolcmana-do-benedykta-dybowskiego-ze-zbiorow-poznanskiego-oddzialu-archiwum-pan-interesujacy-przyczynek-dla-historii-zbiorow-przyrodniczych-w-polsce
%X In 1887 Ksawery Branicki founded a zoological museum. The private institution was to protect Warsaw’s natural collections against possible confiscation by the Russian authorities during anti-Polish repressions. The museum existed for 32 years until it was passed to the Polish nation in 1919, and the National Museum of Natural History was created. Jan Sztolcman managed the Branicki Museum throughout its entire existence. This museum was one of the most important zoological collections in Europe, especially famous for its rich ornithological collections from South America and Asia. The article analyses available, today very fragmented, sources of knowledge about the history of the Branicki Museum, and also presents the hitherto unknown correspondence of Jan Sztolcman with Benedykt Dybowski on the exchange of specimens between the Branicki Museum and the Museum of the University of Lwow.