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Ignacy Domeyko

1802 - 1889

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Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota (Spanish: Ignacio Domeyko, Spanish pronunciation: [iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko]; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile. After a youth passed in partitioned Poland, Domeyko participated in the Polish–Russian War 1830–31. Upon Russian victory, he was exiled, spending part of his life in France (where he had gone with a fellow Philomath, Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz) before eventually settling in Chile, whose citizen he became. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ignacy Domeyko is the 23rd most popular geologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 23 out of 90. Before him are Walter Alvarez, William Smith, Adam Sedgwick, Jean-André Deluc, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu. After him are Giuseppe Mercalli, William Buckland, Norman L. Bowen, John Tuzo Wilson, Alexander von Keyserling, and Vladimir Obruchev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 25. Before him are Husein Gradaščević, Germain Henri Hess, Charlotte Bonaparte, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Leopold Fitzinger. After him are Harriet Martineau, Robert Chambers, Paul-Émile Botta, Arnold Ruge, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, and Carl Ritter von Ghega. Among people deceased in 1889, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 32. Before him are Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Gaston Planté, Şevkefza Kadın, Adolf von Henselt, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. After him are Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, John Ericsson, Elvira Madigan, and Franciscus Donders.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 52 out of 368. Before him are Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Lucjan Żeligowski (1865), Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Paul Baran (1926), and Yevno Azef (1869). After him are Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł (1512), Mikhail Borodin (1884), Otto Schmidt (1891), Lew Sapieha (1557), and Dawid Janowski (1868).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Belarus

Among geologists born in Belarus, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 1. After him are Anna Missuna (1868).

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