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Boleslaw Kotula (born 27 October 1849 in Cieszyn, died 19 August 1898) is a Polish zoologist and botanist.

He was the son of Andrzej Kotula and Anna of the Tetl. After graduating from high school in Cieszyn Grammar School in 1868 he studied at the University of Vienna. For the first three semesters he studied medicine, later he moved to physics. From 1871 a student of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He graduated in 1872. He remained at the university, where he was until 1874 assistant professor. Maximilian Nowicki at the zoology department. Later he was a high school teacher in Lviv and a high school professor in Przemysl. From 1887 he suffered from neurasthenia and treated in various health resorts. In 1888 he went to Baltimore, where he returned in 1891. He died tragically during the botanical expedition with his brother Andrzej on the Geisterspitze (3476 m) in the Ortler Group in the Tyrolean Alps, falling into a snow-covered slope in the Ebenferner Glacier.

Since his youth he has been collecting various natural collections. He conducted zoological research (mainly on insects and molluscs) and botanicals in Malopolska and in the Tatras. In those mountains (which he still knew from his student days), he spent several weeks during the summer months of 1879-1885, during which he conducted research, often accompanied by Wladyslaw Kulczyński and the Highlander Guide by Szymon Tatar, younger.

The first Kulczyński zoological works concerned beetles. His most important zoological works, however, are the molluscs, which is titled "The Vertical Splitting of the Snail Snails" is one of the most outstanding works of the nineteenth century in the European scale. Kotula's most outstanding work is his enormous botanical work, Arrangement of vascular plants in the Tatras, which the author compiled on the basis of 42 thousand. notes from plant stands in the field. In the Tyrolean Alps, Kotula prepared about 250 thousand. notes on the vertical distribution of the plants there, supplemented by numerous barometric altimeters, as well as a huge herbarium, which have not yet been developed.

He did not set up a family. He is probably in Meran. Selected publications Bibliography

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