Artsovsky [Arzt] Henrik Bronislav General data:
15.07.1871 - 21.02.1958
Place of birth: Warsaw City, Republic of Poland
Studied in: University of Liege, Kingdom of Belgium (1888-1889); University of Paris (Sorbonne), French Republic (1889-1893); University of London, Kingdom of Great Britain (); Edinburg University, Kingdom of Great Britain (); Zurich University, Swiss Confederation (1896); Franz I University, Lemberg city, Austro-Hungarian Empire (since 1999 Ivan Franko Lviv National University) ();
Key interests: solar-terrestrial connections, geophysics, meteorology
Biography:
He was born July 15, 1871, in Warsaw City, Republic of Poland. The Artz family, from which he originated, arrived in Poland in the 17th century from the Duchy of Württemberg (Since 1952, part of the federal state Baden-Württemberg of the Federal Republic of Germany). Probably the genus Arts has an aristocratic origin, in particular in the generic tree of the descendants of Gerand III von Trautmansdorf, who died in 1467, is present in the fifth generation of the spouses Franz von Trautmannsdorf and Dorothea von Arts. Trauttmansdorf-Austrian Count and princely family, which came from south Tyrol. The tribal castle of Trautmannsdorf-in-Ostwämmerk near Meran is currently located within Italy.
He studied gymnasium in Inowroclaw. Then the boys were sent to Belgium to finish high school there.
In 1888 he began studying at the University of Liege, where he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy, and in 1889 he was a chemist and geologist at the Natural History Museum in Sorbonne (University of Paris), and the Hipnitsy School. After completing his studies in Paris City in 1893, he returned to Liege city, where he worked in the chemical laboratory of Professor Walter Springer in 1894-1896 as assistant at the Department of Chemistry at the University. In parallel, he studies at the metheological department in London, the universities of Edinburgh and Zurich in 1895-1896. According to some data, he also studied in Lemberg city(now Lviv city of Ukraine).
In 1893 he asked the Belgian government for permission to change his surname to "Artsovsky".
The scientist participated in the Belgian Antarctic expedition on the vessel "Belzhik" in 1897-1799. In 1895 he applied for participation in it. On return from Antarctic, he lives in Brussels, where he analyzes the results of the expedition at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. Receives Belgian citizenship. During 1903-1909, he headed the Observatoire Royal de Belgique meteorological station in Uccle in Belgium.
In 1910 he participated in the French expedition to Spitsbergen and the Lofoten Islands on the vessel "Ile de France".
He visited London, where she met her future wife. In 1919, with his wife he moved to New York, where during 1911-1919 he headed the research department of the New York Public Library. In 1915 he received American citizenship. The scientist becomes a guest of the Research Club, founded by Frederick Cook, who was also a member of the artistic expedition team of 1897-1899.
In 1920 he returned to Poland. The then Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Polsie Ignaty, Yan Paderevsky, offered him the post of Minister of Education, but the scientist refused ...
He was an honorary professor of the Yann Kazimir University of Lviv since 1912.
In 1921 he founded the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology at the Lviv University named after Yana Kazimier and was its head until the end of 1939.
During 1930-1932 he was the director-supervisor of the observatory and head of the department of astronomy at Lviv University.
He also participates in the activities of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union, which he headed in 1934. He also led the Commission on Climate Change. The scholar's initiatives include the participation of Poland in the Second International Polar Year of 1932-1933 and the creation of a Polish research base in Spitsbergen, in the area south of the Gulf of Sassen and Antarctica. The Polish scientific Antarctic station on the island of King George, opened on February 26, 1977, was subsequently named after the scientist.
In 1935 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In August 1939, a scientist and his wife went to Washington for a conference of the International Geodesy and Geophysical Union as chairman of the Climate Change Commission. But at the same time the Second World War begins. Here he becomes a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institute and does not stop his research until his death, even when he became compelled to retire in 1950 in connection with the illness.
On February 21, 1958, in Bethesda, Maryland, the scientist died. In May of that year, his wife died. In 1960, the ashes of the spouses were repossessed in Warsaw City, at the Cemetery of the Military Prisoners.
Known as meteorologist, geophysicist, astrophysicist, geographer, geochemist, traveler and polar explorer. He was fluent in Polish, French and English. Henrik Arktovsky's list of publications exceeds 400 titles.
The name of the scientist is called many geographic places on Earth. In the name of Artstovsky the name is the effect when the light, refracted by the use of ice crystals in the atmosphere, creates around the halo a halo with two additional symmetrical arcs of light. The Widow scientist founded the Artstovsky Medal, which is awarded every two years by the Academy of Sciences for significant achievements in the field of "studying the physics of the sun and the solar- terrestrial relations ".
Main publications:
1. Henryk Arctowski: Report on Poland, compiled for the use of the American Delegation to the Peace Conference by H. Arctowski. Nowy Jork. s. 2464.
2. Die antarktischen Eisverhältnisse : Ausz. aus meinem Tagebuch d. Südpolarreise d. "Belgica" 1898-1899 / von Henryk Arctowski.- Erscheinungsdatum: 1903.-1108 p.
3. About climatical variations [Texte imprimé] / by Henryk Arctowski//American Journal of science, vol. 37,Washington , 1914/-P. 305-315
4. The annual Variation of atmospheric pressure in the United States... by Henryk Arctowski//Studies on climate and crops, 6. - Reprinted from the "Bulletin of the American geographical Society", Vol. XLVI, Washington, Government printing Office), 1914. In-8°, paginé 266-281
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