Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933


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Henryk Arctowski, Lwów ->
was on the scientific staff of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897-1899).

Antoni Dobrowaolski, Warsaw ->
Up to 1907 he was a member of the Belgian expedition to the South Pole.

Wladyslaw Jozef Gorczynski, Nice ->
has made several voyages abroad on scientific expeditions for the study and measurement of solar radiation (Actionometry). From1904-1914 he was in French, North Africa, Egypt, Asia-Minor, Central-Asia, Spitzbergen (Norway) and from 1919-1928 in the Congo, Siam, Java, British India, Sahara, Mexico and U.S.A.

Leon Kozlowski, Warsaw ->
made numerous scientific expeditions; worked in many French, German and English Museums and made scientific studies in the Baltic Provinces and in the Balkans.

Arnold Makowski-Sarjusz, Warsaw ->
explored the glaciers of the Lake of Ladoga in 1906 and made studies on various mines in Siberia, Manchouria and Japan in 1902. He also participated in various scientific expeditions in European Russia, Finland, Latvia, North-Caucasia; Ukraine, including the geologic and geophysic output in North of Caucase in 1912 and a geologic exploration in Central Asia.

Karel Absolon, Brno ->
has explored the Moravian and Balkan caverns, the fossil men and their culture, - especially the "Machocha".

Alois Musil, Prague ->
During a prolonged sojourn in the Holy Land and Syria he explored in 1896, 1897 and 1898 the Biblical Negeb, Edom and Moab, the classical Arabia Petraea. He returned to these territories again in 1900, 1901 and 1902. His scientific aim was the investigation of the topography and ethnology of these lands. East of Moab he discovered (1898) the famous Quisair Amra, built in the desert by Caliph Walid II. (about 744) as his residence. After 1908 he carried out extensive explorations in northern Arabia and in the adjacent Meopotamian lands. From 1908-1909 he worked in the classical Arabian Desert. In 1910 he conducted field investigations to establish the location of the Biblical Mount Sinai as well as the route of the Exodus and the camping grounds of the Midianite and Ishmaeilite tribes. In 1912 he visited Palmyrena, the right banks of the middle Euphrates and Tigris, and the surroundings of the Shiite cities of Kerbela and Nejef. In 10914 and 1915 he completed reconnaissance surveys of the lower course of the river Tartar in the interior of Mesopotamia, left bank of middle Euphrates and of the Chalybonitis of Ptolemy. Holding the rank of Major-General he headed Archduke Hubert's mission to Asia-Minor, Syria and Palestine in 1917.