Zygmunt Fedorowicz

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Zygmunt Fedorowicz, ps. Albin, Maria, Józef (born 1889, died 1973) - Polish zoologist, teacher, activist of the National Party, during World War II Government Delegate for the Vilnius County. Curriculum vitae

He graduated from E. Konopczyński High School in Warsaw, then studied at the University of Louvain and the Jagiellonian University. In the years 1913-1914 he was an assistant at the Department of Comparative Anatomy of the Jagiellonian University. Since 1914 he lived in Vilnius, being a junior high school teacher. In 1919 he defended his doctorate at the Jagiellonian University. During Central Lithuania he was Vice-Marshal of the Vilnius Sejm. In 1921 he became the director of the Gimnazjum im. King Sigismund Augustus in Vilnius. He was a member of the National Party and editor of "Dziennik Wileński".

Since 1939 he has been active in the conspiratorial structures of the National Party and organized secret teaching. In March 1942, he was appointed a Delegate of the Government to the Vilnius County. He used the aliases "Albin", "Lady Maria" and "Joseph". In August 1944 he was arrested by the NKVD and later sentenced to 10 years in prison.

He returned to the country in 1955. From 1956 he worked as an assistant professor and then as a docent at the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was the author of many scientific papers. Outline of the History of Zoology (1962).

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