People from Kluczbork County - People from Kluczbork, Jan Dzieron, Kurt Daluege, Gustav Freytag, Joanna Gleich, Adam Gdacjusz, Tomasz Garbowski (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johann Dzierzon, also John, Johannes Dzierzon, known in Polish as Jan Dzieron or Dziero (16 January 1811 26 October 1906), was a pioneering apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis among bees, and designed the first successful movable-frame beehive. Dzierzon came from a Polish family in Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia (and later Germany). Trained in theology, he combined his practical and theoretical work in apiculture with his duties as a Roman Catholic priest, before being compulsorily retired from Church service. His discoveries and innovations made him world-famous in scientific and bee-keeping circles, and he has been described as the "father of modern apiculture". Dzierzon came from region of Upper Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia (from 1871 in the German Empire; since 1945 in Poland). He was born in the village of Lowkowitz (Polish owkowice) near Kreuzburg (Kluczbork), where his parents owned a farm. As his family had an ethnic Polish background, his nationality has been variously described as Polish, German, or Silesian. Born on 16 January 1811, he completed Polish elementary school before he was sent to a Protestant school located a mile away from his village. In 1822 he moved to Breslau (Wrocaw), where he attended middle school (gymnasium). In 1833 he graduated from the Breslau University Faculty of Catholic Theology, and in 1834 became chaplain in Schalkowitz (Siokowice). In 1835, as an ordained Roman Catholic priest, he took over a parish in Karlsmarkt (Karowice), where he lived for 49 years. In his apiary, Dzierzon studied the social life of honeybees and constructed several experimental beehives. In 1838, he devised the first practical movable-comb beehive, which allowed manipulation of... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2253670