Ignacy Żagiell

Ignacy Żagiell (Lithuanian: Ignotas Žagelis) (14 February 1826, Pavirinčiai, Anykščiai district, Lithuania - 21 June 1891, Warsaw or Vilnius) was a physician, traveler and Polish-language writer, descended from Lithuanian nobility.

Life

Żagiell served as an army physician in Great Britain from 1859, and as a civilian physician in Turkey from 1864.

He travelled in India, Egypt and the Near East.

Notable works
  • Historja starożytnego Egiptu (History of Ancient Egypt, 1880);
  • Podróż historyczna po Abissynii, Adel, Szoa, Nubii, u źródeł Nilu, z opisaniem jego wodospadów, oraz po krajach podrównikowych; do Mekki i Medyny, Syryi i Palestyny, Konstantynopolu i po Archipelagu (1884; reprint published in 2012; some of the descriptions in this book are probably not authentic).
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See also

References
  • Ignotas Žagelis
  • "Żagiell Ignacy". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
  • "ŻAGIELL Ignacy". Interia.pl - encyklopedia. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
  • "Żagiell Ignacy". Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. 6 (1 ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1997. p. 1068. ISBN 83-01-11969-1.


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