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Jan Zabinski
At the end of 1945 he returned to Polish and took a job as well as popularizing science, mainly in the Polish Radio. He has delivered over 1500 pogadaneko nature, becoming a favorite with listeners. Since 1947, he was a member of the State Council for Nature Conservation. Popularized action to restore bison nature, from 1947 he edited "The Book of European bison pedigree."
Jan Zabinski (born April 8, 1897 in Warsaw, died. July 26, 1974 in Warsaw) - Polish zoologist, physiologist, and popularizer of Zoology, Warsaw Uprising. Brother Dr. Hanna Petrynowskiej.
agronomy engineering degree obtained at the Agricultural Academy, he received a doctorate in physiology at the University of Warsaw, habilitation at University in Lublin.
you already have a serious scientific achievements has been the organizer of the Warsaw Zoo, and in 1929 he was appointed the first director of the Garden. He held this position until March 1951. In the years 1918-1944
led to work teaching in secondary schools in the Warsaw Agricultural University and the University of Warsaw secret.
In September 1939, the zoo, midwives near one of the antiaircraft artillery Warsaw was heavily bombed. Many animals were killed or fled from the garden. Many of the remaining Nazis deported later to other gardens (including Konigsberg, Hanover and Vienna). Empty spaces Jan Zabinski and his wife Antonina used the hiding of Jews smuggled from the Warsaw ghetto areas. In the confines of the smuggling took part, visiting the ghetto under the pretext of searching for waste to feed pigs, which then in the garden. Within three years, the zoo passed hundreds of refugees, some of whom lived in the basement Żabińskich villa, located in the garden. This activity Dr. Zabinski and his wife, Yad Vashem honored, both in 1968, giving the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
Jan Zabinski was a soldier of the Home Army, attained the rank of lieutenant. He commanded a platoon in the Warsaw Uprising, was seriously injured in captivity in a POW camp.