Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński

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Birth Date:
14.04.1861
Death date:
01.12.1896
Length of life:
35
Days since birth:
59585
Years since birth:
163
Days since death:
46569
Years since death:
127
Extra names:
Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński
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Officer, Voyageur
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Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński (born April 14, 1861 - December 1, 1896) was a Polish explorer of Africa. He was planning to create a Polish colony in Cameroon.

Rogoziński was born in Kalisz, Russian partition of Poland. After a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, he organized an expedition to Africa with Klemens Tomczek and Leopold Janikowski. His Cameroon expedition lasted from 1882 to 1884. After his return, in 1895, he joined the Royal Geographical Society. In 1892-1893 he organized an expedition to Egypt.

He founded the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw (Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie) and donated his collection of items and artifacts to the museum.

He died in 1896 in a traffic accident in Paris.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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