Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński
Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński
- Dzimšanas datums:
- 14.04.1861
- Miršanas datums:
- 01.12.1896
- Mūža garums:
- 35
- Dienas kopš dzimšanas:
- 59556
- Gadi kopš dzimšanas:
- 163
- Dienas kopš miršanas:
- 46540
- Gadi kopš miršanas:
- 127
- Papildu vārdi:
- Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński
- Kategorijas:
- Ceļotājs, Virsnieks
- Tautība:
- polis
- Kapsēta:
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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.
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