Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński

Michal Hieronim Leszczyc-Suminski (born 30 September 1820 in Ośno - died 26 May 1898 in Tharandt) was a Polish botanist, painter and art collector. He was an alumnus of Humboldt University of Berlin.

Purported self-portrait from circa 1852

Biography

He married Anne Hudson (1830–1874), the daughter of George Hudson, the so-called Railway King of England.[1]

Scientific achievements
  • Zur Entwickelungs-Geschichte der Farrnkräuter (German) (English, The Evolution of Ferns (1848).

Art
gollark: Indeed.
gollark: My computer can calculate things! It literally has 6TFLOP/s of computing power!
gollark: You pay a lot of capital for essentially a worse more constrained phone with the advantage of moderately better battery life and being allowed in exams.
gollark: Physical calculators are just bad, though.
gollark: Nobody has to know.

References
  1. Lambert. Robert S., "The Railway King 1800-1871", at 291 (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1934).



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