Roman Kozłowski

Roman Stanisław Jakub Kozlowski ( born 1 February 1889 in Wloclawek, † May 2, 1977 in Warsaw) was a Polish paleontologist and professor at the University of Warsaw.

Life

After visiting the higher commercial school Kozlowski studied geology in Freiburg and the Sorbonne in Paris. Immediately after graduating in 1910 he began with paleontological work on the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle. In 1913 he was a lecturer at the School of Mines in Oruro (Bolivia ) called, where he was entrusted in 1916 with the post of Director of the Department of Geology.

In 1921 he returned to Europe and started in Paris with his dissertation on Devonian fossils of the Bolivian Andes, which he completed in 1923. Then Kozlowski went to Poland and received, according to a term as a lecturer at the Free University Polish (Polish Volna Wszechnica Polska ), 1927 the Department of Paleontology at the University of Warsaw, where he remained until his retirement.

His doctoral counts Zofia Kielan - Jaworowska.

Research priorities

The focus of his work was the study of graptolites, especially from the Holy Cross Mountains. The excellent, sometimes three-dimensional preservation of these fossils in rocks of the lowermost Ordovician provided important insights into the evolutionary development of an extinct group of animals and allowed Kozlowski their classification in the Hemichrodata.

Honors

Kozlowski was honorary doctorates from the universities Krakow, Paris and Modena, he received in 1958 the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and in 1961 the Wollaston medal. In 1958 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society. He also received numerous awards of the Polish state, including the Order of Polonia Restituta. Posthumously, he was recognized by the Polish post office with a postage stamp.