Maksymilian Skotnicki

• Autorzy: Walewski A.
• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

Maksymilian Skotnicki (1937-2007) was a regional geographer; versatile; specialized in the agriculture and land use problems and the population issues in Africa and other tropical countries; engaged in the problems of local development. He was bound to the University of Warsaw through his w hole professional life but he also lectured at several French universities. He served the function of an Associate Dean at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Warsaw and of the Vice-director of the Institute of Developing Countries and of the Institute of Social, Economic and Regional Geography; and he ran the African Study in the African Institute. He was the Editor-in-chief of the periodical „Miscellanea Geographica” and a member of the editorial staff of several Polish and French geographic magazines. He was the chairman of the Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland at the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. He greatly contributed to the scientific cooperation with the foreign countries, mostly with France. He was the initiator and the informal leader of the Polish-French research group Languedoc-Mazowsze engaged in the problems of local development. He was the coordinator of the cooperation with the University of Limoges on the field of utilisation of the water-power resources. He was the author of nearly one hundred scientific articles, a co-author of several books, including academic and school manuals. He made a great contribution to popularization of geography: he was a co-author and a consultant of the most important Polish encyclopedias. He translated a lot of geographical papers into French and from French into Polish.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: 40
• Opis fizyczny: s.293-304,fot.

Twórcy

autor

Walewski A.

• Instytut Studiów Regionalnych i Globalnych, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul.Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa

Bibliografia

• Jędrusik M., 2007, Maksymilian Skotnicki 1937-2007, Przegląd Geograficzny, 79, 1, s. 346-348.
• Maksymilian Skotnicki, Kronika Warszawy, 1 (132), 2007, s. 87.