Talk:Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus

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Bojanus - a Polish scientist?

Was L.H. Bojanus a Polish scientist, as a 2011 intervention claimed? Like many other Vilnius university professors of his period, he was recruited from the German-speaking world, by the Russian (St.Petersburg) authorities that then ruled today's Lithuania. Although he lived in Vilnius for almost 20 years (1806-1824), he never seems to have learned to speak Polish, according to Polish and Lithuanian sources, but used German and French in his private life. He lectured in Latin throughout his Vilnius years (a very good Latin that even the poorest Latinists among his students could follow without trouble, according to Zygmunt Rewkowski,^[1] a Polish mathematician who audited his courses in the early 1820s). He retired to his home town - Darmstadt - in 1824, where he died a few years later. The answer to the question posed would seem to be "No".

84.226.148.157 (talk) 22:39, 6 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that he grew up in a Franco-German culture and there are several interesting Polish sources (which use the form Ludwik Henryk Bojanus) but perhaps calling his "Polish" might not work for that period. Shyamal (talk) 05:26, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Pamiętniki - Ostatnie lata uniwersyteta Wilenskiego, ed. Prof. Witold Wiesław, Wrocław, 2011.

[1] Pamiętniki - Ostatnie lata uniwersyteta Wilenskiego, ed. Prof. Witold Wiesław, Wrocław, 2011.

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