Profesor Edward Ostrowski (1816‒1859) – twórca weterynarii polskiej: życiorys oczami współczesnego

Abstrakt

In the offered article the authors present an extensive biography of Professor Edward Ostrowski (1816–1859) for the first time. His contemporaries had already called him the founder of Polish veterinary medicine. After analyzing the available historiography they came to the conclusion that due to the lack of sources, the scientist’s biography is only a set of short articles on the pages of different dictionaries. Therefore, an extremely valuable historical source is the article by Alois Kuczynski which was published in the pages of “Tygodnik Ilustrowany” in 1860. The quotations from his work used in the research allowed to strengthen the authors’ theses substantially and create a complete image of a scientist and a teacher in whose destiny Poland and Ukraine were united.