Henryk arctowski biography of albert

In a World of Thoughts", the first full biography of this pioneer of Polish polar research. At the time, and only 26 years old, he took over as scientific director of a Belgian expedition on the ship 'Belgica', considered a breakthrough in the history of Antarctic expeditions the participants of this expedition were the first people to spend winter in Antarctica, albeit in unfavourable conditions, because the ship was stuck in the ice for 13 months.

Arctowski's Antarctic research is the foundation of modern polar research. A lesser-known thread the biographers described was his activity for Polish science and Polish scientists during and immediately after World War II. The war broke out while he was there, and with it any prospects of returning home to Lviv and working at the University of Lviv disappeared.

She added that Arctowski had already been a 'scientific diplomat' involved in representing Poland at the conference in Versailles the peace conference that ended World War I. Another thread that had not been touched on before was his relationship with his sister.

Geologist, oceanographer and meteorologist

In addition, the unique materials in the book include: a partially reconstructed family tree of Henryk Arctowski's family, previously unpublished photographs from different periods of his life courtesy of his living relatives , as well as fragments of Arctowski's memories from the 'Belgika' expedition, published in Polish for the first time. Other interesting materials include graphological expert opinions on Henryk Arctowski's handwriting.

That is why we reached for this rather interesting procedure and gave Henryk's letters from different periods of his life to a graphologist - from the period when Henryk was about 30 and when he was already over 50, so that she could try to determine his personality. The analyses of his handwriting match what can be seen in his letters and diaries.

For example, that he was very expressive and that he had big mood swings - one day he could be in a depressive mood and reproach himself and the whole world for nothing making sense. And in the following days he would fall into a frenzy of work and for several days he would sit and write or analyse', the author said. Referring to the title of the book: Henryk Arctowski.

They show that Henryk was indeed an introvert, very focused on his work.